Today, 22 February, is the feast of ...
* St Peter's Chair at Antioch
- earliest entry of this feast is in the calendar of St
Willibrord (c. 704); this feast was known in the twelfth
century as 'St Peter's banquet day'
* Thalassius and Limnaeus (c. 450)
- Syrian hermits, widely renowned for their miracles
* Bardates (c. 460)
- another Syrian hermit, he wore a leather garment that
allowed only his mouh and nose to be seen
* Margaret of Cortona (1297)
- after a conversion experience -- her lover's dog led her
to a pit in which the man lay, murdered -- she became a
Franciscan tertiary, and worked with the sick
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
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