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Today (6. November) is the feast day of:

Iltut (d. sometime between 505 and 535)  Iltut is still one of the most
honored saints of Wales.  We know that, influenced by Cadoc, he became a
monk in c. 470 after he had abandoned his home in Brittany.  He founded the
monastery of Caerworgan (later renamed Llan-Illtut after the saint), which
became one of the most famous monasteries of Wales.

Inflananus (d. 512)  Inflananus (Efflam) was an Irish monk who settled in
Brittany as a hermit in 480.  The cite of his hermitage developed into the
town of St-Efflam.  He is depicted in art protecting King Arthur by
fighting a dragon (!)

Leonard of Noblac (d. 559?)  Legends of Leonard began to develop in the
eleventh century, mostly obscuring the few facts that seem certain about
this figure.  Leonard appears to have been a hermit in Noblac (near
Limoges).  He became a noted counsellor and confessor, and the monastery
later called St-Leonard-de-Noblat gradually developed around his cell.
Legend reports that Leonard won freedom for many prisoners of King
Chlodwig, and that their chains fell off when they invoked the saint's
name.  Leonard's cult spread widely, especially in Bavaria and the Alpine
regions.  He is especially popular as a patron of farmers---and prisoners.

Erlfrid (d. 850)  Erlfrid was count of Calw and probably the founder of the
great monastery of Hirsau in the Black Forest.  He himself lived as a
simple monk in the community.  Hirsau fell into decline soon after
Erlfrid's death and was only re-founded in 1059.

Demetrianos (d. 915)  Demetrianos was born in c. 830 on Cyprus.  From c.
890 to 915 he was bishop of Chytri on Cyprus.  He attracted widespread
veneration, and several places on the island are named after him.

Christina of Stommeln (blessed) (d. 1312)  Christina was born in 1242 in
Stommeln (near Cologne).  Already as a child she began to experience
visions, and from her youth had to endure demonic temptations.  She became
a beguine, and several credible accounts report that from c. 1258 she bore
the stigmata.  Her cult was approved in 1908.

Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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