Today, 17 July, is the feast of ...
* Speratus and companions, the Scillitan martyrs (180)
- described in the earliest 'acta' from Africa
* Marcellina, virgin (c. 398)
- sister of St Ambrose, who dedicated his treatise on virginity to
her
* Alexis (fifth century)
- said to have lived in Edessa as a beggar, who revealed on his
deathbed that he was really a Roman noble; known as 'the Man of God', his
cult was widespread; a notable example of someone who, having married,
parted from his wife without having consummated the marriage
* Ennodius, bishop of Pavia (521)
- a prolific writer, of whom it has been said 'He seems to shrink
from making himself intelligible lest he should be thought commonplace'
* Kenelm (c. 812)
- 'the boy saint of the Cotswolds'
* Leo IV, pope (855)
- often wrongly credited with the institution of the rite of the
'Asperges' before Sunday mass
* Clement of Okhrida and companions, the seven apostles of Bulgaria
(ninth-tenth century)
* Nerses Lampronatsi, archbishop of Tarsus (1198)
- he and other Armenian bishops effected a reunion of their church
with that of Rome; he translated the *Regula Benedicti* and Gregory's
*Dialogues* into Armenian
* Ceslaus (1242)
- brother of St Hyacinth, with whom he became a Dominican
* Carmelite martyrs of Compiegne (1794)
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George Ferzoco
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