Today, 17 January, is the feast of ...
* Antony the abbot (356)
- after a lifetime of austere eremitical living, he was so worried
about the effects of Arianism that, at the age of 104, he left the
desert to preach against them in Alexandria
* Speusippus, Eleusippus and Meleusippus, martyrs (155?)
- triplets, they were martyred along with their grandmother at
Langres
* Genulf or Genou, bishop (250?)
- sent with his father, Genitus, from Rome to preach in Gaul, they
founded a hermitage on the banks of the river Nahon; Genulf then
became the first bishop of Cahors
* Julian Sabas (377)
- a great ascetic (he would eat once a week), he had to answer
charges by enemies that he was secretly an Arian; he left his
hermitage for Antioch, where he successfully refuted the charges
* Sabinus, bishop of Piacenza (420)
- he averted a flood by writing down an order and casting the paper
in the Po river, which obeyed and returned to its normal course
* Sulpicius or Pius or Sulpice II, bishop of Bourges (647)
- his example and preaching converted all the Jews of Bourges to
Christianity
* Richimir, abbot (c. 715)
- founded a Benedictine monastery in the see of Le Mans, at a place
later called Saint-Rigomer-des-Bois
* Roseline de Villeneuve (1329)
- a Carthusian nun of noble lineage, she had frequent visions; when
asked the best way to get to heaven, she replied: 'To know oneself'
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
phone: +44(0)117-928-8168
fax: +44(0)117-929-7850
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