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Today (20. November) is the feast day of:

Dasios (d. 304/305)  Dasias was a Christian soldier in Asia Minor, killed
in the Great Persecution.

Colman of Dromore (6th cent.)  The Irish Colman founded the monastery of
Dromore in Scotland sometime in the sixth century, and was also bishop
there.

Eudo (d. c. 760)  Eudo was the founding abbot of the monastery
Carmery-en-Velay (St-Chaffre) in France.

Edmund of East Anglia (d. 870)  Edmund, born in 841, became king of East
Anglia at the age of 14.  He was captured by Danes in 870; when he refused
to foreswear Christianity he was killed; accounts differ as to whether he
was shot to death with arrows and then beheaded, or perhaps flogged to
death, or perhaps killed by the Viking rite of the blood eagle.  When
Edmund's body was exhumed in c. 915 it was found to be incorrupt, and at
that time was transferred to Bedricsworth (the later Bury St. Edmunds).

Bernward of Hildesheim (d. 1022)  Bernward was a Saxon noble, born in c.
960.  Sent to the cathedral school in HIldesheim as a child, he had an
excellent education (which he passed on from 987 on as tutor to the young
Otto III).  In 993 Bernward became bishop of Hildesheim.  The vita by his
follower Thangmar emphasizes Bernward's efforts to increase the discipline
of his clergy, to preserve the rights of his church from the encroachments
of the archbishop of Mainz, and to beautify his church (besides patronizing
artists, Bernward himself was highly gifted artistically).  Bernward was
canonized in 1192---the first canonized Saxon.

Felix of Valois (d. 1212)  Felix of Valois was, with John of Matha, the
founder of the Trinitarian order.  His cult was approved for the whole
Church in 1694, but in 1969 was reduced again to limited calendars.  Felix
was born in 1127 in Valois.  At first a hermit, he became concerned with
the plight of Christian slaves.  So he and John of Matha established a
religious order (approved 1198) dedicated especially to ransoming and
buying back Christians from the Muslims.  (The order still is devoted
primarily to care for prisoners and missionary work.)

Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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