Today, 11 March, is the feast of ...
* Constantine (sixth century)
- this Cornish king left his throne and entered an Irish
monastery; killed during a mission to Scotland
* Sophronius (c. 638)
- patriarch of Jerusalem at the time the Muslims took it,
he died soon afterward, in Alexandria; he had been an
active opponent of the monothelites
* Vindician (712)
- bishop of Cambrai, he tried to translate the body of St
Leger to Arras, but it went to Poitiers instead; he was
buried at Mont-Saint-Eloi
* Benedict Crispus, archbishop of Milan (725)
- composed the epitaph for the tomb, in St Peter's, of the
young Anglo-Saxon prince Caedwalla
* Oengus, abbot-bishop (c. 824)
- known for his metrical poem on the saints, the
*Festilogium*
* Eulogius of Cordova (859)
- martyred by Moslems before he could be consecrated as
archbishop of Toledo; wrote a work entitled *Memoriale
Sanctorum*
* Aurea, virgin (c. 1100)
- devoted to the cults of saints Agatha, Eulalia and
Cecilia, she lived as a solitary near the convent of San
Millan de la Cogolla, in the diocese of Calahorra
* Christopher Macassoli (1485)
- Franciscan priest, very popular among those who lived
near his priory at Vigevano
* John Baptist of Fabriano (1539)
- out of humility, this Franciscan refused to learn more
than was absolutely necessary to become a priest
* John Larke, Jermyn Gardiner and John Ireland (1544)
- martyred under Henry VIII, but John Heywood, who had been
condemned with them, recanted shortly before the time of
execution, and was thus saved from martyrdom
* Teresa Margaret Redi (1770)
- Carmelite nun of the Florentine convent
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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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