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Today, 22 January, is the feast of ... * Vincent of Saragossa, martyr (304) - after many horrible tortures, the body of Vincent was thrown upon a marshy field, where a raven defended it from scavenging birds and animals; a sermon attributed to Leo the Great states that his body was eventually put in a sack and thrown into the sea, but that it was carried back to the shore and revealed to two Christians * Blesilla, widow (383) - before dying at age of twenty, she learned some Hebrew, and asked Jerome to translate the book of Ecclesiastes * Anastasius the Persian, martyr (628) - a Persian soldier, he converted to Christianity and became a monk; suffered a very slow martyrdom; his relics went from Bethsaloe to a monastery known as Sergiopolis (near Rasapha, Iraq) to Palestine to Constantinople to Rome, where they were placed in the church of St Vincent -- this is why his feast is celebrated today * Dominic of Sora (1031) - throughout his life, he lived as a solitary, founded a monastery, arranged for someone else to be abbot, left it for the solitary life, founded another monastery, arranged for someone else to be abbot, left it, etc. etc. - John Howe of Texas Tech is THE authority on the hagiographical tradition regarding Dominic (Please feel free to relate your favorite Dominic story John!) * Berhtwald, bishop of Ramsbury (1045) - the last bishop of this place before the diocese came under the control of Old Sarum, he was known for his visions and prophecies (including one linking St Peter to Edward the Confessor's rise to the throne) ************************ Carolyn Muessig Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Bristol [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%