Thank you, Phyllis. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day
25. June
Dear listmembers:
I had thought of making the 2004-2005 year the last
that I contributed my "saints of the day" column to the list (for complicated
reasons, my saintly year begins on June 25). But I continue to get a
reasonable amount of very pleasant and appreciative mail, and only occasional
comments that make me want to throw all my saints' books out the window.
AND I think that maybe this year I've found a reference work that is as close
to irreproachable as anything can be in this vale of tears. So I thought
I'd give the column another year, as a chance to work my way through my new
saints' collection (which, by the way, takes up nearly 13 inches of shelf
space) and introduce it to the listmembers. This is *Butler's Lives of
the Saints: New Full Edition*. 12 volumes. Tunbridge Wells, Kent : Burns & Oates
; Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 1995-2000.
The general editor is David Hugh Farmer, with a very prestigious (although very
anglo-centric) cast of specialist consultants. There's one volume per
month, revised by a variety of people. A big advantage: it gives some
bibliography for each entry, at least the main hagiographical sources and
occasionally some secondary literature.
So, without further ado---
Today (25. June) is the feast day of:
Prosper of Aquitaine (d. c. 465) Little is known
about Prosper's life, but his extant writings are interesting. He was a
lay theologian and historian. P. wrote especially on the issue of grace
and free will. The best known of his works, though, is a chronicle of
history from creation to the Vandal sack of Rome.
Maximus of Turin (d. 467) Maximus was a biblical
exegete and preacher, the first known bishop of Turin. A large number of
M's sermons are extant, which sound like a useful source for the history of his
region at the time of the Gothic invasion.
Moluag (Moloc, Lughaid) (d. 592) Moluag may have
been a Scot, trained in Ireland, who then returned to Scotland as a missionary.
Adalbert of Egmond (d. 705/714) Adalbert was a
Northumbrian deacon who worked with Willibrord as a missionary in Frisia.
Eventually he was made archdeacon of Utrecht. A monastery dedicated to A
was built at Egmond in the 10th century. It was destroyed in the siege of
Alkmaar in 1573, but was revived in the twentieth century by monks from
Solesmes.
Gohard and companions (d. 843) Gohard was bishop
of Nantes at a time when the vikings were raiding up the Loire. They
attacked suddenly while G. was celebrating mass, killing the bishop at the
altar and the priests and monks who were with him.
William of Vercelli (d. 1142) William became a
wandering penitential pilgrim at the age of 14, when he set off for Compostela
with two iron bands welded around his body. He became a hermit, but got
unwelcome attention after he cured a blind man, so he moved to the Naples
region. There he attracted hermits and formed them into a community at
Montevergine. W. ended up founding a number of monasteries, the
congregation of Montevergine.
John the Spaniard (blessed) (d. 1160) John
studied at Arles and then went to train with a hermit before becoming a
Carthusian at Montrieu. He was selected as prior of a new foundation at
the Reposoir (near Lake Geneva). His cult was confirmed in 1864.
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