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Today, 13 December, is the feast of ... * Antiochus, martyr (c. 121) - martyred on island of Solta * Lucy, virgin and martyr (303) - refusing marriage to a suitor, she was sentenced to be placed in a brothel, but the governor's guards were unable to move her there; she was then ordered to be burned, but the flames had no effect; finally, her throat was slit - along the way, her eyes were gauged out, but these were miraculously restored; often portrayed in art as holding a dish or shell bearing two eyeballs * Eustratius, Orestes, and others, martyrs (303) - Eustratius was an Armenian, burned to death in a furnace; killed with him in the furnace were his servant Eugenius, two friends (Mardarius and Auxentius) who had pleaded for his life, and Orestes, a soldier who was converted by the courage of Eustratius, and roasted to death on a grill * Abra, confessor (400) - daughter of well-known bishop and saint, Hilary of Poitiers (but born before he became bishop) * Aubert, confessor (c. 668) - bishop of Cambrai, he is believed to have converted a group of lay people to the monastic life and to have performed many miracles * Judoc or Josse (c. 668) - son of king Juthael of Amorica (Brittany), ordained c. 636 at Ponthieu and after a pilgrimage to Rome, became a hermit at Runiacum (later named Saint-Josse) * Odile, virgin (eighth century) - born blind, she received sight at age twelve when baptized by St Erhardt of Regensburg; patron of Alsace and of the blind, her shrine (near Strasbourg) remains a major pilgrimage centre * Elizabeth Rose, virgin (1130) - died at Villechausson, near Courtenay * * * * * * * * * * * * * Carolyn Muessig [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%