Today, 7 September, is the feast of ...
* Regina or Reine, virgin and martyr (date unknown)
- native of Alise (Bourgogne), she refused a marriage offer from
the local Roman prefect; as she was about to be beheaded, a shining dove
was seen hovering above her head
Last year Elena Lemeneva added:
In my MA thesis I tried to find the earliest mention of this
dove-story. What I found was the "Passio S. Reginae Virg. Mart." in
the AASS Boll. 7 Sept. III, 39 - 40:
[After tortures and last prayer] Et postquam oravit, miserunt illam
in vas illud aqua plenum: et terrae motus factus est magnus: et ecce
columba de coelo descendens habebat in ore coronam, et disrupta sunt
vincula beatae Reginae, et ascendit de aqua, laudans et benedicens
Dominum et dicens: Dominus regnavit, decorum indutus est; illuminasti
me, Domine Jesu Christe, et salvasti, misertus unicae puellae, qui es
benedictus ante secula. Et facta est vox columbae dicens: Veni
Regina in requiem Christi; beata es, quae hanc coronam meruisti. (p.
39)
The AASS do not date this passion of the unknown authorship. I
presume that it must have been written before the twelfth
century. Does anyone know when and where it comes from?
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Thanks Elena!
* Sozon, martyr (date unknown)
- the local magistrate tortured him by having nails driven upward
through the soles of his shoes; when Sozon marched in front of the
magistrate in the arena, he called up to him: 'I have finer red shoes
than you!'
* Grimonia, virgin and martyr (date unknown)
- escaped from Ireland to France in the hope of thus preserving
her virginity; she did, but only by defending her honour to the death;
on this day in 1231, her relics were enshrined (along with those of
another ex-Irish virgin and martyr, St Proba) at Lesquielles
* John of Nicomedia, martyr (303)
- according to Lactantius, he was burned alive; he has sometimes
been erroneously identified with St George, protector of England
* Anastasius the Fuller, martyr (304?)
- although the Roman Martyrology says this saint died on this date
in Aquileia, he really died on 26 August in Split
* Clodoald or Cloud (c. 560)
- brought up by his grandmother St Clotilda (the widow of Clovis);
by a pun on his name, he is venerated in France as patron of nail-makers
* Alcmund and Tilbert, bishops of Hexham (781 & 789)
- the seventh and eighth bishops of this see
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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