Today, 4 July, is the feast of ...
* Bertha, widow (c. 725)
- built a nunnery at Blangy in Artois
* Andrew of Crete, archbishop of Gortyna (740?)
- was dumb until he received his first communion; went on to be a
great homilist, particularly as regards Mary
* Odo, archbishop of Canterbury (959)
- made his native East Anglia into a separate diocese, and
encouraged Dunstan's reforms at Glastonbury
* Ulric, bishop of Augsburg (973)
- the first person to be canonized by a pope (of whom we have
record); the pope was John XV, the year 993
* WIlliam of Hischau, abbot (1091)
- active in a variety of pursuits; invented an ingenious clock
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George Ferzoco
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