Today, 3 August, is the feast of ...
* Finding of st Stephen (415) - commemorates the discovery by the priest
Lucian of protomartyr Stephen's relics at Kafr Gamala (Palestine) in
December 415
* Germain d'Auxerre (448) - bishop of Auxerre, who travelled to Britain
to counter Pelagianism
* Waltheof or Walthen, abbot of Melrose (c. 1160) - while celebrating
mass one Christmas day, he had a vision that the host in his hands was
in the form of the baby Jesus
* Augustine, bishop of Lucera (1323) - closely linked with king Robert
of Naples
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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