Today, 7 July, is the feast of ...
* Pantaenus (c. 200) - once a Stoic philosopher, he became head of the
Alexandria catechetical school; Eusebius says he had been a missionary to
India, where he met Christians who had been converted thanks to the
apostle Bartholomew; nicknamed 'the Sicilian bee'
* Palladius, bishop (432) - persuaded St Germain d'Auxerre to preach in
Britain against Pelagianism; was himself eventually sent by Pope Celestine
I
* Felix, bishop of Nantes (582) - this is actually the feast of the
translation of his relics; he died on 6 January
* Ethelburga, Ercongota and Sethrida, virgins (c. 664 and 660) -
Ethelburga and Sethrida, half-sisters, were abbesses of abbey of
Faremoutier, in the forest of Brie; niece Ercongota was
divinely forewarned of her death by a vision of angels
* Hedda, bishop of Winchester (705) - at his tomb, people would come to
his tomb with dirt, mix it with water, and sprinkle the mixture on sick
men and animals
* Cyril and Methodius (869 and 884) - brothers, natives of Thessalonika,
venerated as apostles of the southern Slavs and fathers of Slavonic
literary culture
* Benedict XI, pope (1304) - when his mother came to visit him at the
papal court, he refused to welcome her until she changed out of her fancy
clothes purchased for the occasion, into her everyday attire
Carolyn Muessig
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