Today, 30 June, is the feast of ...
* Martial, bishop of Limoges (c. 250) - an eleventh-century vita claims
that he was one of the seventy-two disciples of Jesus;
* Bertrand, bishop of Le Mans (623) - was particularly concerned with the
planting of vineyards in his diocese
* Erentrude, virgin (c. 718) - in the early eleventh century, emperor St
Henry attributed his cure from illness to her intervention
* Theobald or Thibaud of Prvins (1066) - travelled with another noble,
Walter, to Reims, Suxy (Ardennes), forest of Pettingen (Luxemburg),
Compostela, Rome and other Italian holy places before settling in
Salanigo, near Vicenza
* Arnulf of Villers (1228) - a Cistercian lay-brother known for his
mortifications and penitential exercises; in later years he suffered from
St Vitus's Dance, and while scourging himself he would laugh and dance
Carolyn Muessig
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