Today, 30 March, is the feast of ...
* Regulus or Rieul, bishop (c. 250?)
- patron of the city and diocese of Senlis, of which he is
said to have been the first bishop
* John Climacus, abbot (c. 649)
- author of the *Ladder to Paradise*, consisting of thirty
chapters illustrating the thirty degrees for attaining
religious perfection; in art he is portrayed holding a
ladder
* Zosimus, bishop (c. 660)
- as a boy, his tasks included being guardian of the place
in Syracuse where St Lucy's relics were kept; once, after
he had shirked his duty, he had a vision of Lucy loooking
at him angrily, while he was being defended by the Virgin
Mary
- he eventually became abbot of the monastery which housed
this shrine, and then bishop of Syracuse
* Osburga (c. 1016)
- first abbess of the nunnery founded by king Canute in
Coventry, she became patron of that city
* Dodo (1231)
- after his wife joined a convent, he became a recluse in
Friesland; killed by a falling wall, his corpse was found
to have the stigmata (although cynics would say these were
just wounds from the falling masonry)
- official patron of the Ministry of Silly Names
* Amadeus of Savoy (1472)
- grandson of antipope Felix V, he was known for his
generosity to the poor and his personal austerity
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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