Today, 31 August, is the feast of ...
* Deposition of the Holy Belt of the Mother of God
- Mary's belt and dress were kept in her house in Chalkoprateia
until Justinian's time, when they were put in a luxurious case; this relic
is now kept in the monastery of Vatopedi, Mount Athos
* Paulinus, bishop of Trier (358)
- educated in Poitiers, as bishop he was banished into Phrygia,
where he died; in 1883 his remains were exhumed, and found to be wrapped
in oriental silks
* Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne (651)
- regarded by some as the greatest apostle of England, he
established a monastery on Lindisfarne, under the Rule of St Columcille;
he felt the best way to convert the Northumbrians was by 'the milk of
milder doctrine, until they should be able to digest more solid food'
* Raymond Nonnatus, cardinal (1240)
- got his name after being taken from the body of his mother after
her death in labour; he is the patron of midwives
* Laurence Nerucci and companions, martyrs (1420)
- Nerucci, along with three other Servite friars (Augustine
Cennini, Bartholomew Donati and John-Baptist Petrucci), died in the
company of 60 others when the monastery in which they were singing the *Te
Deum* was set on fire by Hussites
* Juvenal Ancina, bishop of Saluzzo (1604)
- held chair of medicine at University of Torino, but converted to
religious life when overwhelmed after reflecting on the *Dies irae*, being
sung at a funeral
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George Ferzoco
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