Today, 24 June, is the feast of ...
* the birthday of John the Baptist - it's a holiday in Quebec; salut la
bas!
In relations to the feast Butler writes:
St Augustine remarking that the Church celebrates the festivals of saints
on the day of their death, which in the true estimate of things is their
great birthday, their birthday of eternal life, adds that the birthday of
St John the Baptist forms an exception because he was sanctified in his
mother's womb, so that he came into the world sinless.
* martyrs under Nero (64) - scapegoats for the great fire of Rome
* Simplicius, bishop of Autun (fourth or fifth century) - after his
election to the episcopate, Simplicius and his wife, to prove themselves
to the public, voluntarily submitted to an ordeal by fire
* Bartholomew of Farne (1193) - spent 42 years on this island off the
Northumbrian coast
Carolyn Muessig
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