I (Oriens) thought this message, from the Cistercian Studies list, might be of interest to the
brethren and sustren:
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 08:54:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 4 October
To: CISTERCIAN STUDIES LIST <[log in to unmask]>
Hodie celebramus festam sancti Francisci, confessoris, fratris minoris
Mariam, abbatissam de Carriso
Cisterzienser Chronik 24:15
Heri praetermissimus Irmengard, benefactorem Baindtis (qui?)
Cisterzienser Chronik 39:363
Cras commemorabimus vitam Therese Demargne, monialem monasterii de La
Fille Dieu (1914)
On the Coptic calendar, today is the 24 Thout in the year 1713 and the
commenoration of St Gregory the ascetic and St Quadratus, one of the 72
disciples, a noble Athenian tortured, stoned, and burned (like many
Coptic saints, who refused to succumb to one form of execution and
insisted on sampling several before finally dying; on this see, D. N.
Bell's introduction to Mena of Nikious: THe Life of Isaac of Alexandria
and the Martyrdom of Saint Macrobius!
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