Today, 27 August, is the feast of ...
* Marcellus and companions, martyrs (287?)
- died at Tomi, on the Black Sea (isn't this where Ovid ended his
days?); when bears were let loose, they would not harm these people, and
it was not possible to set a fire to burn them... so that got their heads
chopped off
* Poemen, abbot (fifth century)
- even though he would go for up to a week without food, he told
his fellow Egyptian desert hermits that they should eat: 'We fast to
control our bodies, not to kill them', he would say
* Caesarius, bishop of Arles (543)
- earliest writer to show familiarity with the Athanasian creed,
Caesarius was a renowned preacher
* Syagrius, bishop of Autun (600)
- entertained Augustine and companions on their way from Rome to
England
* Hugh of Lincoln (1255)
- this is 'Little' Hugh, a boy supposedly killed by Jews
* Angelo of Foligno (1312)
- that's 'Angel_O_', not the more famous Angela of the same place;
he was an Augustinian friar, close to saints Giovanni Buono and Nicola da
Tolentino
* Margaret the Barefooted, widow (1395)
- even while married, she would walk around her native San
Severino (in the March of Ancona) barefoot, like the beggars she liked to
help
* Gabriel Mary (1532)
- a Franciscan theologian and philosopher, who became visitor
general of the Order of the Annunciation
* David Lewis, martyr (1679)
- born in Monmouthshire, he was hanged at a scaffold erected by a
convict, who bought his freedom with this construction (the regular
executioner would not hang Lewis)
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George Ferzoco
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