Today 16 July is the feast of ...
Athenogenes, bishop and martyr (305)
Eustathius, bishop of Antioch (340): aka The father of church history.
Helier, martyr (sixth century)
Reineldis, virgin and martyr (680)
Fulrad, abbot (784): The abbey of Saint-Denis was one of the most famous
monasteries of Europe in the middle ages. Fulrad was the only abbot of
Saint-Denis to be venerated as saint.
Ermengard, abbess (866): Ermengard was the daughter of King Louis the
German, grandson of Charlemagne and his queen Emma. Louis, having
established tow of his other daughters as abbesses of convents,
appointed Ermengard to govern first the monastery of Buchau and then the
royal abbey of Chiemese in Bavaria.
Milo of Selincourt, bishop of Therouanne (1158): A hermit for many
years, then he joined the Premonstratensians. In 1131 he was appointed
bishop of Therouanne. In a sermon attributed to Milo, our bishop shows
great interest in woman's clothing: "It is not decent that Christian
women should trail at their heels long skirts which pick up filth off
the roadway. Surely you realize, dear ladies, that if a gown of this
kind was necessary to you, nature would have met the case by attaching
to you something more suitable with which to sweep the ground."
The Commemoration of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: The patronal feast of the
Carmelite Order was originally the Assumption of the BVM on 15 August.
But between 1376 and 1386 the custom arose of observing a special feast
of the BVM to celebrate the approbation of their rule by Pope Honorius
III in 1226.
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
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