Today, 18 October, is the feast of ...
Luke, evangelist: Mentions 6 miracles and 18 parables not referred to in
the other gospels - patron of physicians, surgeons and painters of
pictures.
Justus of Beauvais, martyr (?): Beheaded as a youth; after the execution,
his headless body stood up and proclaimed, '... I am sinless'; holding his
head in his hands, he directed his father and brother to bury his body in
a cave, and to take the head home to his mother (a conversation piece?) -
widespread medieval cult in northwestern Europe.
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Carolyn Muessig
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