Today, 6 February, is the feast of ...
* Titus, bishop in Crete (first century)
- sent by St Paul to a number of places (including Ephesus
and Corinth) until settling in Crete, where he died
peacefully
* Dorothy, virgin and martyr (303?)
- although she died in Caesarea -- before her martyrdom,
she converted a non-believer -- her body is in the church
of St Dorothy in Rome ('there's no place like Rome, there's
no place like Rome')
* Mel and Melchu, bishops (488?)
- nephews of St Patrick; Mel preceded Melchu as bishop of
Armagh
Vedast or Vaast, bishop of Arras (539)
- accompanied Clovis to Reims; en route, he confirmed the
faith of the king and his courtiers by curing a blind man
they encountered
* Amand, bishop (c. 679)
- a father of monasticism in the Low Countries (in fact,
dozens of religious communities claim him as their founder)
* Guarinus, cardinal-bishop of Palestrina (1159)
- after years as a monk, he was made cardinal, at which
time he sold all the pope's gifts to him, and gave the
money to the poor
* Raymund of Fitero, abbot (1163)
- founded the military order of the Knights of Calatrava
* Hildegund, widow (1183)
- a noble woman, she turned her castle into a convent
* Angelo of Furcio (1327)
- studied under Giles of Rome, a fellow Augustinian; upon
obtaining his licentiate in Paris, he went to Naples, where
he became professor of theology in the local Augustinian
college
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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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