Today, 9 June, is the feast of ...
* Primus and Felician, martyrs (c. 297) - in 640 Pope Theodore caused
their relics to be brought from their tomb in the Via Nomentana to the
church of Santo Stefano Rotondo; this translation was an early instance
of the removal of bodies of martyrs from a church dedicated to them
outside the walls of Rome to a basilica within the city
* Vincent d'Agen, martyr (c. 300) - a Gascon deacon, he was martyred
after he interrupted a pagan ceremony
* Pelagia of Antioch, virgin and martyr (c. 311) - she killed herself
rather than let soldiers arrest and rape her; named in canon of
Ambrosian mass of Milan
* Columba or Colmcille, abbot of Iona (597) - perhaps Scotland's most
popular saint, even though he was Irish
* Richard, bishop of Andria (twelfth century) - although his acts' say
he was an Englishman and the first bishop of this Pugliese town in the
fifth century, it may well be that the real Richard was another
Englishman of this name, a late twelfth-century bishop
* Diana, Cecilia and Amata, virgins (1236 and 1290) - Dominican nuns,
who knew Dominic himself in Bologna
* Silvestro Ventura (1348) - a lay-brother in the Camaldolese monastery
of St Mary in Florence; although totally uneducated, many learned men
sought his advice; he would dissuade people from undertaking prolonged
penitential exercises as tending to pride
* Henry the Shoemaker (1666) - among the founders, in Paris, of the
'Freres Cordonniers'
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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