Today, 7 February, is the feast of ...
* Adaucus, martyr (303)
- executed in Phrygia, this magistrate and finance minister
refused to abandon his faith
* Theodore of Heraclea, martyr (no date?)
- a general in the army, and one of the 'Megalomartyrs'
(i.e. great martyrs)
* Moses, bishop (c. 372)
- known as 'apostle of the Saracens', he preached among the
nomad tribes of the Syro-Arabian desert (who were called
'Saracens' by later Greeks and Romans)
* Richard, 'king' (720)
- an 'invented' saint, buried in the church of San Frediano
in Lucca; the most reliable thing we know about him is that
he was the father of St Willibald
* Luke the Younger (c. 946)
- as a boy, he would give away his clothes and food to the
poor, and sow not his father's fields but those of poor
neighbours; became a very austere hermit, known (among
other things) for levitating while praying
* Romuald, abbot (1027)
- founder of the Camaldolese monks (the name comes from
some land given to Romuald by a nobleman named Maldolo:
'Campus Madoli')
* Rizzerio (1236)
- close friend of Francis of Assisi, who had converted him
to a devout life after a sermon in Bologna on 15 August
1222
* Antonio da Stroncone (1461)
- for most of the last 30 years of his life, he would
normally eat only bread and water seasoned with wormwood
- some believed that knocking could be heard from his tomb
(or from images of him) at the moment of a devotee's death
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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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