Today, 28 July, is the feast of ...
* Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs (date unknown) - earliest Milanese
martyrs; translation of relics by Ambrose was accompanied by many
wonders
* Victor I, pope and martyr (c. 199) - an African, he is said by Jerome
to have been the first in Rome to celebrate liturgy in Latin
* Innocent I, pope (417) - quotable quote: 'in all matters of faith,
bishops throughout the world should refer to St Peter'
* Samson, bishop of Dol (c. 565) - born in Wales, known throughout
Britanny for his miracles and missionary journeys (particularly in
Cornwall, Scilly Islands and Channel Islands)
* Botvid (1100) - Swedish layman, murdered by a Finnish slave he was
about to set free
A few years ago Jonas Carlquist Dep. of scandinavian languages Stockholm
University informed us about the following edition of Botvid's vita:
The story about Botvid is edited in Scriptores rerum Suecicarum medii
aevi II:1, from page 377 (the edition is taken from the 14/15th century
manuscript Codex Laurentii Odonis - a fragment of the same vita is also
found in a manuscript from c. 1250). If I remember correctly the slave,
liberated by Botvid, who kills Botvid is of Slavonic birth. Botvid was
killed on an island called outside Tystberga, Sweden, after a roving
expedition at sea.
* Antonio della Chiesa (1459) - preached an exemplum, stating that a
certain usurer, at his death, lost not only his soul but also his body,
which had been carried off by a troop of diabolic horsemen, so that his
relatives had had to bury an empty coffin
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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