Today, 27 August, is the feast of ...
* Marcellus and companions, martyrs (287?) - died at Tomi, on the Black
Sea (where Ovid ended his days); when bears were let loose, they would not
harm these people, and it was not possible to set a fire to burn them...
so that got their heads chopped off
* Poemen, abbot (fifth century) - even though he would go for up to a week
without food, he told his fellow Egyptian desert hermits that they should
eat: 'We fast to control our bodies, not to kill them', he would say
* Caesarius, bishop of Arles (543) - earliest writer to show familiarity
with the Athanasian creed, Caesarius was a renowned preacher
* Syagrius, bishop of Autun (600) - entertained Augustine and companions
on their way from Rome to England
* Hugh of Lincoln (1255) - this is 'Little' Hugh, a boy supposedly killed
by Jews
* Angelo of Foligno (1312) - that's 'Angel_O_', not the more famous Angela
of the same place; he was an Augustinian friar, close to saints Giovanni
Buono and Nicola da Tolentino
* Margaret the Barefooted, widow (1395) - even while married, she would
walk around her native San Severino (in the March of Ancona) barefoot,
like the beggars she liked to help
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Carolyn Muessig
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