Today, 31 July, is the feast of ...
* Neot (ninth century)
- a monk of Glastonbury who became a hermit in Cornwall, his
advice was greatly valued by King Alfred
- in fact, it is in the *Chronicle of the Sanctuary of St Neot*
that one finds the story of Alfred and the burnt cakes (famous throughout
England: the story, not the cakes)
* Helen of Skovde, widow (c. 1160)
- Swedish noble, murdered upon her return from a pilgrimage to
Rome (Jonas: is this murdering business a distinctive element of Swedish
hagiography? it seems that way to me...)
* Giovanni Colombini (1367)
- one of the early 'Gesuati'
* Ignatius Loyola (1556)
- the earliest 'Gesuiti'
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George Ferzoco
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