Today, 4 March, is the feast of ...
* Lucius I, pope (254)
- pope for eight months, he is patron of Roskilde, Denmark (where
Brian McGuire is professor of medieval history)
* Adrian and companions, martyrs (875?)
- massacred in a monastery on the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth
by marauding Danes (that's all those Danes were good for: marauding)
* Peter of Cava, bishop of Policastro (1123)
- first bishop of this see, he soon requested and obtained permission
to retire to the monastery of Cava, where he became abbot
* Umberto III di Savoia (1188)
- count of Savoy, after many trials of his statesmanship he left the
world to join the Cistercian monastery of Hautecombe, where he
accepted the most humble and austere conditions
* Casimir of Poland (1484)
- known as 'The Peace-Maker', he refused to enter secular affairs (as
well as to marry), and died at age of 23; canonized in 1521
* Christopher Bales, martyr (1590)
- hanged, drawn and quartered in Fleet Street, London (the place that
became the centre of English print journalism)
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George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask]
School of Modern Languages
LEICESTER LE1 7RH UNITED KINGDOM
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