Today, 12 August, is the feast of ...
* Euplus, martyr (304)
- memorized the Gospels; beheaded in Catania
* Murtagh or Muredach, bishop (sixth century?)
- no vita exists, in Latin or Irish, but he was of the royal
family of king Laoghaire, and supposedly the first bishop of Killala, by
appointment of st Patrick
* Porcarius and companions, martyrs (c. 732)
- Porcarius was abbot of Lerins, off the coast of Cannes, when the
abbey was raided and sacked by Moslems/Muslims/Saracens/Moors; Porcarius
managed to get the oblates and younger religious to safety by boat, but
hundreds of monks who remained were slaughtered
* Clare, virgin (1253)
- founded the Poor Clares or Minoresses; subject of several
conferences in 1993 and 1994, celebrating the (approximate) 800th
anniversary of her birth
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George Ferzoco
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