Today, 2 September, is the feast of ...
* Antoninus, martyr (fourth century)
- a Syrian stonemason, killed by angry pagans while he was
building a Christian church; his relics were translated to Palencia in
Spain, of which he is the patron
* Castor, bishop of Apt (c. 425)
- Cassian dedicated the *De institutis coenobiorum* to him
* Agricolus, bishop of Avignon (seventh century)
- cult began in the sixteenth century, he became patron of Avignon
in 1647; invoked there to bring changes in the weather
* Stephen of Hungary (1038)
- (like Diana, Princess of Wales?) he would disguise himself
before going among the poor to do good works; pope Gregory VII ordered
that his relics by translated to a chapel within the Buda church dedicated
to Mary
* William, bishop of Roskilde (c. 1070)
- chaplain to king Canute; named in Danish calendars, but has
never had a liturgical feast in his honour
* Margaret of Louvain, virgin and martyr (1225?)
- described by Caesarius of Heisterbach in the sixth book of his
*Dialogue on Miracles*; her murdered body was found with the help of a
supernatural light and angelic voices; buried in a special chapel in the
churchyard of St Peter's collegiate church at Louvain
* Brocard or Burchard (1231?)
- list member Paul Chandler knows more about this figure than any
one of us, I believe; Brocard was head of the hermits of Mount Carmel at
the time that pope Honorius III confirmed their rule (thanks to a vision
of the Virgin Mary) in 1226
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George Ferzoco
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