Today, 28 January, is the feast of ...
* John of Reomay, abbot (c. 544)
- he refused to converse with his own mother when she came to the
abbey to visit him
- he lived to be more than one hundred years old
* Paulinus, patriarch of Aquileia (804)
- advisor to Charlemagne, he fought against the Adoptionist heresy
(wherein Christ, as man, is not the natural son of God, but only his
adoptive son)
* Charlemagne (814)
- cult began to develop to him in late twelfth century, under the
auspices of Frederick Barbarossa and antipope Paschal III (Guido da
Crema)
* Amadeus of Lausanne (1159)
- a monk of Clairvaux, his abbot Bernard appointed him to become
abbot of Hautecombe; became bishop of Lausanne in 1144
* Peter Nolasco (1189)
- devoted himself to the work of ransoming slaves; to this end, he
founded the Order of Our Lady of Ransom
* James the Almsgiver (1304)
- a lawyer who became an ascetic priest, he joined the Third Order of
either the Servites or the Franciscans; when he proved to the bishop
of Chiusi that his see had embezzled funds intended for a hospice,
the bishop invited James to dinner, and arranged for thugs to mug
James on his way; these ruffians in fact killed James
* Antonio da Amandola (1350)
- modelled himself after St Nicholas of Tolentino; public cult to him
began some years after his death, following miracles at his tomb
* Peter Thomas, titular patriarch of Constantinople (1366)
- one of the motley crew of preachers at the papal court of Avignon
(who have been studied by our list's own motley Blake Beattie), he
was appointed to lead a military expedition to Alexandria, where he
was wounded (he ended up dying from these wounds on Cyprus). Anything to
add Blake?
* Maria Mancini, widow (1431)
- she converted her house into a hospital, and would drink the wine
with which she washed the patients' sores
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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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