Today, 12 August, is the feast of ...
* Euplus, martyr (304) - memorized the Gospels; beheaded in Catania
* Murtagh or Muredach, bishop (sixth century?) - no vita exists, in Latin
or Irish, but he was of the royal family of king Laoghaire, and supposedly
the first bishop of Killala, by appointment of st Patrick
* Porcarius and companions, martyrs (c. 732) - Porcarius was abbot of
Lerins, off the coast of Cannes, when the abbey was raided and sacked by
Muslims; Porcarius managed to get the oblates and younger religious to
safety by boat, but hundreds of monks who remained were slaughtered
* Clare, virgin (1253) - founded the Poor Clares or Minoresses; subject of
several conferences in 1993 and 1994, celebrating the (approximate) 800th
anniversary of her birth
Carolyn Muessig
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