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Today, 8 June, is the feast of ... * Maximin d'Aix (first century?) - one of Jesus's seventy-two disciples, he left Palestine after the Ascension with Mary Magdalen, Martha, Lazarus, Mary Cleophas, Mary Salome and others in order to evangelize Provence; the head of Mary Magdalen is still supposed to be in the church dedicated to Maximin * Medard, bishop of Vermandois (c. 560) - gave the veil to Radegunde - in Salency (his native town), if it rains on St Medard's feast the forty ensuing days will be wet; if the weather is fine, the next forty days will also be fine -- anyone know the forecast? * Clodulf or Cloud, bishop of Metz (c. 692) - his father, St Arnoul, was also bishop of Metz * William, archbishop of York (1154) - scenes from his life are in the stained glass windows of York - canonized in 1227 by pope Honorius III * Giovanni Rainuzzi (1330?) - relics discovered in 1568: while an exorcism was pronounced in the crypt of a church in Todi, the demoniac suddenly cried out 'Here rests the body of Blessed John the Almsgiver'; soon some bones were discovered, with an inscription identifying these as the remains of Johannes Raynutius de Todi * Pacifico Ramota (1482) - author of popular *Sometta di pacifica coscienza*, a work of moral theology; charged by pope Sixtus IV to preach a crusade against Mohammed II, but he died soon after beginning to do so * * * * * * * * * George Ferzoco %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%