Today, 31 July, is the feast of ...
* Neot (ninth century) - a monk of Glastonbury who became a hermit in
Cornwall, his advice was greatly valued by King Alfred - in fact, it is
in the *Chronicle of the Sanctuary of St Neot* that one finds the story
of Alfred and the burnt cakes (famous throughout England: the story,
not the cakes)
* Helen of Skovde, widow (c. 1160) - Swedish noble, murdered upon her
return from a pilgrimage to Rome
* Giovanni Colombini (1367) - one of the early 'Gesuati'
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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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