Today, 29 July, is the feast of ...
* Martha, virgin (first century) - according to Provencal legend, she
accompanied Mary Magdalen to the south of France, and evangelized
Tarascon, where her relics were invented in 1187
* Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice, martyrs (304?) - a newborn baby
accused the murderer of Beatrice of the crime, and three hours later he
died a horrible death (and all who were present decided to convert to
Christianity)
* Felix 'II' (365) - since 1947, the *Annuario Pontificio*, in its list
of popes, has noted 'Felix II as an antipope
* Lupus or Loup, bishop of Troyes (478) - accompanied Germain d'Auxerre
into Britain to combat the Pelagians; taken hostage by Attila
* Olaf of Norway, martyr (1030) - spring that gushed from his grave
cured people miraculously; the site is known as the Feginsbrekka, or
'hill of joy'
* Urban II, pope (1099)
After a bit of prompting from George Ferzoco, Michael Hynes told us what
he thinks of the cult of Urban:
Ok, I'll just say one or two things about Urban II. He is indeed the
infamous pope of the 1st Crusade (called for at the Council of Clermont
in 1095). He was born of an aristocratic French family, was prior of
Cluny (1067-70) under Abbot Hugh, archbp of Reims, and finally pope
(1088-99). His was one of the most sucessful pontificates. He was
sucessful in besting Henry IV and the anti-pope, Clement III; he was a
great legislative and conciliar pope; he (mostly) suceeded in
consolidating the reform. Politically adroit, Urban tackled the thorny
problem of what to do about scismatic (N.B. that contoumacious scism
was regarded as a heresy) ordinations and (because of the scism)
multiple claimants to the same office with pragmatism and diplomacy.
His politically adroitness (like the Am. pres. Bill Clinton), however,
often left his actual positions open to misunderstanding. He has, for
example, been viewed as a moderate on issues of investiture and
clerical hommage. I am arguing in my diss. that this was merely a
tactic--Urban was as opposed to these practices as G VII. Urban also
completed the reformation of the south-western French church that had
been initiated by G VII at the Council of Poitiers (1078). It was no
accident that he chose Clermont in Eastern Aquitaine as the opening
site for a series of French councils which basically took the papacy on
a tour of Aquitaine and culminated with the Council of
Poitiers (under Urban's sucessor) in 1100. From the pt. of view of
French social history (I include this out of personal interest and for
Richard), Urban suceeded in taming the peace and truce of God (prob.
repressed in this region by G VII), and (this is especially for you
Richard Landes) he took action against the cult of Saint Martial. As
far as my evaluation of Urban goes, he was a corpus mixtum. But I think
that given a choice between an inflexable purist like G VII and a wiley
pragmatist like Urban, I'd choose the latter. For his legislative
achievements alone, I suppose he earned his sainthood.
* Guillaume Pinchon, bishop of Saint-Brieuc (1234) - canonized in 1247;
at translation of his relics the following year, his body was found to
be incorrupt
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Okay listmembers, so now I, a non-Catholic, am ready to attend a
> Latin Mass, forewarned of all pitfalls of etiquette. But as someone
> suggested, in order to follow the service, a service book would be
> very useful. I have in my possession something that might be
> appropriate, but perhaps someone could comment on this: The Missal in
> Latin and English, Being the text of the Missale Romanum with English
> rubrics and a new translation, edited by the Rev. J. O'Connell
> and H.P.R. Finberg, first published in 1949.
>
> Jim Bugslag
>
>
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