Today, 23 March, is the feast of ...
* Victorian and companions, martyrs (484)
- victims of the Arian king of the Vandals, Huneric
* Benedict the Hermit (c. 550)
- according to Gregory's *Dialogues*, he survived being
shut up in an oven by invading Goths
* Ethelwald the Hermit (699)
- succeeded St Cuthbert as the person with the postal
address: Hermitage, Farne Island
* Pietro Ghisengi da Gubbio (c. 1250?)
- when the *Te Deum* was heard coming from his tomb, it was
opened, and there was found Pietro's corpse in a kneeling
position, with open mouth and joined hands
* Sibillina Biscossi, virgin (1367)
- blind from age of twelve, she lived most of her life as
an anchoress in a Dominican church of Pavia
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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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