Today, 31 August, is the feast of ...
* Deposition of the Holy Belt of the Mother of God - Mary's belt and dress
were kept in her house in Chalkoprateia until Justinian's time, when they
were put in a luxurious case; this relic is now kept in the monastery of
Vatopedi, Mount Athos
* Paulinus, bishop of Trier (358) - educated in Poitiers, as bishop he was
banished into Phrygia, where he died; in 1883 his remains were exhumed,
and found to be wrapped in oriental silks
* Aidan, bishop of Lindisfarne (651) - regarded by some as the greatest
apostle of England, he established a monastery on Lindisfarne, under the
Rule of St Columcille; he felt the best way to convert the Northumbrians
was by 'the milk of milder doctrine, until they should be able to digest
more solid food'
* Raymond Nonnatus, cardinal (1240) - got his name after being taken from
the body of his mother after her death in labour; he is the patron of
midwives
* Laurence Nerucci and companions, martyrs (1420) - Nerucci, along with
three other Servite friars (Augustine Cennini, Bartholomew Donati and
John-Baptist Petrucci), died in the company of 60 others when the
monastery in which they were singing the *Te Deum* was set on fire by
Hussites
Carolyn Muessig
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