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Sorry folks - this should read "Interim Saints - April 17th" --- Bill East <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Interim Saints - April 16th > > ANICETUS, pope and martyr (A.D. 168) > > Eusebius . . . says that S. Anicetus became bishop of Rome after S. > Pius I, i.e. about A.D. 157. He was called upon to oppose the > heresies > of Valentine and Marcion. > > DOMNAN and companions, martyrs (about A.D. 600) > > S. Domnan, like many other Irish abbots, took boat with fifty-two > disciples, and sailed away in quest of some lone isle where they > might > be with God in solitude. Having fist visited S. Columba at Iona, > they > went North, and settled in the island of Ewe [hence the Irish St Ewe] > in Loch Ewe on the Western coast of Ross-shire, where they were > attacked and butchered by pirates. > > STEPHEN HARDING, abbot (A.D. 1134) > > "His order [the Cistercians] seems to have thriven in S. Stephen's > native air; most of our great abbeys - Tintern, Rievaulx, Fountains, > Furness, and Netley, which are known by their beautiful ruins, were > Cistercian. The order took to itself all the quiet nooks and > valleys, > and all the pleasant streams of Old England, and gladdened the soul > of > the labourer by its constant bells. Its agricultural character was > peculiarly suited to the country, though it took its birth beyond the > seas." > > I would have thought the soul of the labourer might have been annoyed > by its constant bells, if he was trying to get some sleep after his > labours. > > RUDOLF, boy, martyr (A.D. 1287) > > "This is another instance of a boy massacred, or rather said to have > been massacred by the Jews . . . There is too much reason to fear > that > in all cases the charge was rashly made, and as rashly believed, and > that the excuse it offered for pillage was too often the motive for > the > attribution of the crime." > > Oriens. > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%