Today, 6 July, is the feast of ...
* Romulus, bishop of Fiesole, martyr (90?)
- like the founder of Rome, he was supposedly suckled by a wolf
* Dominica, virgin and martyr (303?)
- cult centred in Tropea (Calabria); perhaps confused with
Byzantine St Cyriaca
* Sisoes (c. 429)
- lived in vicinity of the mountain where St Antony had died
* Goar (c. 575)
- wrongly brought to trial before the bishop of Trier, this hermit
was cleared thanks to a three-day-old child's testimony
* Sexburga, abbess of Ely, widow (c. 699)
- sister of saints Etheldreda, Ethelburga and Withburga, and
half-sister of St Sethrida; honoured in England and Sweden
* Modwenna, virgin (seventh century?)
- a recluse who lived on a small island called Andresey, in the
Trent River (England)
* Godeleva, martyr (1070?)
- drowned in a river of Flanders; the site became a place of
pilgrimage, where people drink the water and invoke the saint's
intercession against sore throats
(and, not medieval but interesting, Maria Goretti, virgin and martyr,
1902)
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George Ferzoco
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