Today, 22 January, is the feast of ...
* Vincent of Saragossa, martyr (304)
- after many horrible tortures, the body of Vincent was thrown upon
a marshy field, where a raven defended it from scavenging birds and
animals; a sermon attributed to Leo the Great states that his body
was eventually put in a sack and thrown into the sea, but that it
was carried back to the shore and revealed to two Christians
* Blesilla, widow (383)
- before dying at age of twenty, she learned some Hebrew, and asked
Jerome to translate the book of Ecclesiastes
* Anastasius the Persian, martyr (628)
- a Persian soldier, he converted to Christianity and became a monk;
suffered a very slow martyrdom; his relics went from Bethsaloe to a
monastery known as Sergiopolis (near Rasapha, Iraq) to Palestine to
Constantinople to Rome, where they were placed in the church of St
Vincent -- this is why his feast is celebrated today
* Dominic of Sora (1031)
- throughout his life, he lived as a solitary, founded a monastery,
arranged for someone else to be abbot, left it for the solitary
life, founded another monastery, arranged for someone else to be
abbot, left it, etc. etc.
- John Howe of Texas Tech is THE authority on the hagiographical
tradition regarding Dominic (Please feel free to relate your favorite
Dominic story John!)
* Berhtwald, bishop of Ramsbury (1045)
- the last bishop of this place before the diocese came under the
control of Old Sarum, he was known for his visions and prophecies
(including one linking St Peter to Edward the Confessor's rise to
the throne)
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
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