Today, 11 July, is the feast of ...
* Pius I, pope and martyr (c. 155)
- battled many heresies, often with the help of Justin Martyr;
converted the Baths of Novatus into a place for worship
* Drostan, abbot of Deer (c. 610)
- left the abbacy and became a hermit in Angus
* John, bishop of Bergamo (c. 690)
- some sources (e.g. Baronius) claim he was killed by Arians
* Hidulf, bishop (c. 707)
- left bishopric of Trier for the life of a hermit; c. 676 he
built the monastery of Moyenmoutier
* Olga, widow (969)
- popularly regarded as the first person to be baptized in Russia
* Adrian Fortescue, martyr (1539)
- a cousin of Anne Boleyn, he was charged with treason by Henry
VIII; beatified in 1895
* Oliver Plunkett, martyr (1681)
- the last martyr of Tyburn, and the first Irish martyr to be
beatified; most of his remains are enshrined in the church of Downside
Abbey, near Bath; his head is in St Peter's church at Drogheda
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George Ferzoco
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