Today, 29 December, is the feast of ...
* Trophimus (third century?)
- this saint could be the Trophimus named as a companion of
St Paul in the Temple of Jerusalem, or one sent along with
St Dionysius to preach at Arles
* Marcellus Akimetes, abbot (c. 485)
- third abbot of a monastery that was divided into several
choirs which, succeeding one another, continued the Divine
Office uninterrupted all day and night
* Ebrulf or Evroult, abbot (596)
- lived in the forest of Ouche in Normandy as leader of a
group of hermits
* Peter the Venerable, abbot (1156)
- abbot of Cluny, he arranged for Latin translations of
many Arabic texts
* Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, martyr (1170)
- for a unique record of his cult, see book by list member
Phyllis Roberts, *Thomas Becket in the Medieval Latin
Preaching Tradition. An Inventory of Sermons about St
Thomas Becket c. 1170 - c. 1400*, Steenbrugge/Den Haag, St
Peter's Abbey/Martinus Nijhoff, 1992 (Instrumenta
Patristica, 25)
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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