Today, 26 October, is the feast of ...
* Evaristus, pope and martyr (c. 107)
- son of a Hellenic Jew; accorded title of martyr, but no passio
exists
* Lucian and Marcian, martyrs (250?)
- studied black magic before converting; unlike many martyrs flung
into fires, these two actually did burn and die (instead of coming out
and having to be beheaded)
* Rusticus, bishop of Narbonne (c. 461)
- no formal vita exists; a letter by Jerome c. 411 is supposedly
addressed to him; attended synod at Arles which condemned Monophysism
* Cedd, bishop of the East Saxons (664)
- brother of St Chad; agreed to forsake Celtic custom re Easter
observance at Whitby synod of 664; died soon afterward
* Eata, bishop of Hexham (686)
- as abbot of Melrose, received Cuthbert as a novice; Bede says he
was meek and simple
* Bean, bishop of Mortlach (eleventh century)
- founder of bishopric of Mortlach in Banff, Scotland; feast
observed in diocese of Aberdeen
* Damian of Finario (1484)
- as an infant, snatched from home by a lunatic, but found thanks
to a miraculous light showing where the boy lay hidden
- a Dominican, renowned in Lombardy and Liguria for his preaching
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Carolyn Muessig
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