(Sorry for the re-sending of feasts 19 and 20 June!)
Today, 21 June, is the feast of ...
* Eusebius, bishop of Samosata (c. 379) - seems he should be a martyr,
as he died after an Arian woman, standing on a roof, threw a tile down
onto his head; he died several days later from the wounds
* Alban or Albinus of Mainz, martyr (fifth century) - one of the
cephalophoric saints, who carried their heads in their hands following
decapitation
* Meen or Mewan, abbot (sixth century?) - a healer of various skin
diseases
* Engelmund (c. 720) - most famous assistant of St Willibrord in
evangelizing the Netherlands
* Leutfridus or Leufroy, abbot (738) - he loved poverty so much that he
once refused Christian burial to a monk who had died with money in his
possession
* Ralph or Raoul, archbishop of Bourges (866) - many Western governments
take note: Ralph referred to those who interfered with the finances of
hospitals as 'murderers of the poor'
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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