Today, 13 October, is the feast of ...
* Faustus, Januarius and Martial, martyrs (304?)
- called by Prudentius 'the Three Crowns of Cordova'
- while Martial prayed for strength as he was on the rack, the other two
had their noses, ears, eyelids and lips cut off until all three were
burned
* Comgan, abbot (eighth century)
- founded monastery near Skye; buried on Iona by nephew St Fillan; feast
celebrated in Aberdeen
* Gerald of Aurillac (909)
- count of Aurillac, a monastic founder who lived in a monastic fashion but
never became a monk; biographer was Odo of Cluny
* Coloman, martyr (1012)
- on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, passed through Austria; near Vienna, he was
accused of being a spy; since he could not give an understandable account
of himself due to his ignorance of the local language, the locals hanged
him; held to be saint due to his patience under unjust sufferings; body
translated to Melk; object of popular cult in later Middle Ages
* Edward the Confessor (1066)
- king of England; marriage with Edith was a continent one
- on good terms with William, duke of Normandy ('the Conqueror); this did
not hurt his posthumous reputation
- rebuilt and endowed monastery in honour of St Peter, known as West
Minster (in distinction from church of St Paul, in the east of London)
* Maurice of Carnoet, abbot (1191)
- Cistercian, native of Brittany, became abbot of monastery founded by
Duke Conan IV in forest of Carnoet
- feast celebrated in Breton dioceses and by Cistercians everywhere
* Maddalena Panattieri, virgin (1503) - born and spent her entire life in
small northern Italian village of Trino Vercellese; a Dominican tertiary,
she gave conferences to women and children, and eventually to men (lay and
clerical) in a chapel
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Carolyn Muessig
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