Today, 23 May, is the feast of ...
* Desiderius or Didier, bishop of Vienne, martyr (607) - martyred,
perhaps by King Theodoric's men, at site of present-day
Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne
* Guibert (962) - founded monastery of Gembloux, in Brabant
* Leontius, bishop of Rostov, martyr (1077) - first monk of the Caves of
Kiev to become a bishop
* Ivo, bishop of Chartres (1116) - Born in the region of Beauvais, he
was a student of Lanfranc. He became bishop of Chartres in 1090.
Big-time canonist, he is the author of *Triperta*, *Decretum*,
*Panormia*. He also wrote sermons and letters which can be found in J.
Leclercq, Les classiques de l'histoire de France au moyen age XXII
(1949).
* Euphrosyne of Polotsk, virgin (1173) - apparently the only (female)
virgin to have been canonized by the Russian Church
* William of Rochester, martyr (1201) - while travelling from Perth to
Jerusalem, murdered by a lad he had adopted
* Gerard of Villamagna (1245) - was a Tuscan hermit, and Franciscan
tertiary, after having been captured in the Holy Land during the third
crusade
* Bartolomeo da Montepulciano (1330) - with consent of his wife, joined
the Franciscans; performed many miracles, especially regarding
multiplication of food
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
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