Today, 13 June, is the feast of ...
* Felicula, martyr (90?) - offered the choice of marrying someone
(Flaccus, rejected suitor of St Petronilla) or sacrificing to idols, she
chose to starve herself, until eventually tortured and suffocated in the
sewers of Rome
* Aquilina, martyr (end of third century?) - after her execution, it was
ordered that her body be mutilated; but instead of blood, there was milk
that flowed from her
* Triphyllius, bishop of Nicosia (c. 370) - described by Jerome as 'the
most eloquent of his age'
* Gerard of Clairvaux (1138) - Bernard's second and favourite brother, but
not among the party of young relatives and friends who had accompanied
Bernard when he entered Citeaux
* Antony of Padua, doctor (1231) - a journal, *Il Santo*, is dedicated to
the study of Antony - patron of those seeking lost objects; invoked
incessantly by some who will go unnamed. (Paul Spilsbury at the University
of Bristol is doing a Ph.D on the sermons of Antony of Padua. His special
interest is in the technique of *concordantia* of scriptural texts. If
anyone out there should know of any other medieval author's use of the
terms *concorantia* or *concordare* in the twelfth or thirteenth century
please inform the list! Thanks.)
Carolyn Muessig
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