Today, 17 October, is the feast of ...
John the Dwarf (fifth century): Noted for his obedience to the precepts of
his masters; known mainly through anecdotes in the *Apophthegmata*; last
words: 'I never followed my own will; nor did I ever teach another what I
had not first practised myself.'
Anstrudis or Austrude, virgin (c. 700): Probably the daughter of St
Salaberga, founder of an abbey at
Laon; succeeded her mother as abbess.
Nothelm, archbishop of Canterbury (740): Was chief aid to Bede in
composition of the *Ecclesiastical History*.
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Carolyn Muessig
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