Today, 18 December, is the feast of ...
* The Expectation of the Confinement of Mary
- festival originated formally at the tenth council of Toledo, in 654; in
France this day is sometimes known as 'Notre-Dame de l'O', because on it
begins the antiphon, 'O Sapientia', the first of the eight Greater
Antiphons, all beginning with 'O' (right, Julia? :-) )
* Rufus and Zosimus, martyrs at Philippi in Macedonia (c. 107)
* Quintus, Simplicius, and others, martyrs in Africa (c. 251)
* Moyses, martyr (third century)
- known for having excommunicated Novatus
* Gatian, confessor (c. 301)
- first bishop of Tours
* Auxentius, confessor (early fourth century)
- bishop of Mopsuestia
* Bodagisl or Arnoald, confessor (588)
- a noble of the courts of Austrasia, father of St Arnoald (bishop of
Metz), and husband of St Oda
* Flavitas, confessor (620)
- lived as a hermit near Sens
* Flannan, confessor (seventh century)
- first bishop of Killaloe, and amazing worker of miracles (e.g. he sailed
to Rome, but on a stone instead of a ship)
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Carolyn Muessig
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