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Today, 23 May, is the feast of ... * Desiderius or Didier, bishop of Vienne, martyr (607) - martyred, perhaps by King Theodoric's men, at site of present-day Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne * Guibert (962) - founded monastery of Gembloux, in Brabant * Leontius, bishop of Rostov, martyr (1077) - first monk of the Caves of Kiev to become a bishop * Ivo, bishop of Chartres (1116) - Born in the region of Beauvais, he was a student of Lanfranc. He became bihsop of Chartres in 1090. Big-time canonist, he is the author of *Triperta*, *Decretum*, *Panormia*. He also wrote sermons and letters which can be found in J. Leclercq, Les classiques de l'histoire de France au moyen age XXII (1949). * Euphrosyne of Polotsk, virgin (1173) - apparently the only (female) virgin to have been canonized by the Russian Church * William of Rochester, martyr (1201) - while travelling from Perth to Jerusalem, murdered by a lad he had adopted * Gerard of Villamagna (1245) - was a Tuscan hermit, and Franciscan tertiary, after having been captured in the Holy Land during the third crusade * Bartolomeo da Montepulciano (1330) - with consent of his wife, joined the Franciscans; performed many miracles, especially regarding multiplication of food Carolyn Muessig [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%