Today, 15 August, is the feast of ...
* the Assumption of Mary - in 1950, pope Pius XII confirmed the very
long tradition of belief among Roman Catholics that at the end of her life,
Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven
* Tarsicius, martyr (third century) - known as 'the boy-martyr of the
Holy Eucharist', he was an acolyte who was killed by non-Christian Romans on
the Appian Way while he was transporting some consecrated hosts
* Arnulf or Arnoul, bishop of Soissons (1087) - after time in the
monastery of st Medard, he became bishop; died in Aldenburg, where he
was for some time buried in the churchyard (until at a council at Beauvais
in 1120, when the then bishop of Soissons demanded that the corpse be moved
into the church)
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
phone: +44(0)117-928-8168
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