Today, 1 July, is the feast of ...
* the Precious Blood - an office 'of the Blood of Christ' was conceded to
the archdiocese of Valencia in 1582
* Shenute, abbot (c. 466) - quick-tempered and violent abbot of
Dair-al-Abaid, near Atripe in the Thebaid
* Theodoric or Thierry, abbot (533) - cured king Theodoric I of
ophthalmia; founded community at Mont d'Or, near Reims
* Carilefus or Calais, abbot (c. 540) - with St Avitus he founded a
community in the Maine, around which grew the town of Saint-Calais (not to
be confused with the port of Calais, across the English Channel from
Dover)
* Gall, bishop of Clermont (551) - a great singer, who served as cantor in
the chapel of king Theodoric
* Eparchius or Cybard (581) - Gregory of Tours attests to a large cult of
this saint
* Simeon Salus (sixth century) - deemed by many to be a fool (Greek
'salos' = 'mad'); lived in the desert near the Dead Sea for almost thirty
years
* Serf or Servanus, bishop (sixth century?) - patron and apostle of the
Orkney Islands; one legend has it that he was a son of the king of the
Picts, who gave up his right to the throne and then studied
at Alexandria, was made patriarch of Jerusalem and eventually pope before
resigning in order to preach to the Scots
Carolyn Muessig
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