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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Today (7. February) is the feast day of: Adaucus (d. 304) Adaucus was finance minister in Phrygia under Diocletian. Diocletian ordered him killed when he discovered that A was a Christian. This led to a number of new martyrs; that town of Antendro, where A was, was burned out, and a lot of Phrygian Christians died with him. Chrysolius the Armenian (4th cent.) Chrysolius fled Armenia during Diocletian's persecution. He became a missionary in northeastern Gaul, and probably was consecrated bishop. C was eventually martyred in Flanders. Richard (d. 720) Richard was the father of Sts. Willibald, Winnibald, and Walburga. He and his whole family left Hampshire to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but he died at Lucca and was buried there. Luke the Wonderworker (d. c. 946) Luke was a member of a peasant family that had fled Aegina to escape Muslim raids and settled in Thessaly. His youth seems to have been marked by giving away most of his parents' goods to the poor. Despite this, they still wanted to keep him and protested when he tried to become a monk. So he ran away, only to be caught and imprisoned under suspicion that he was an escaped slave. Sent home again, he finally won his parents over and became a monk. But from the age of eighteen on, he moved to a hermitage near Corinth. He established a great reputation a a miracle worker (thus the nickname) and is one of the earliest saints credited with levitation during prayer. Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice [log in to unmask] ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html