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Today, 10 February, is the feast of ... * Soteris, virgin and martyr (304) - praised by Ambrose in his *De virginibus*; a beautiful woman who had vowed to be chaste, she rejoiced when she was ordered to be struck in the face, and then suffered great tortures without a single groan before she was decapitated * Scholastica, virgin (543) - sister of St Benedict, famous for the time when Benedict wished to leave her company against her will, so she prayed that God would keep him there for a while: at that moment, a great storm broke out, and Benedict could not leave until the next day; three days later, Scholastica died * Trumwin, bishop (c. 690) - bishop of the Picts, he set up his see at the monastery of Abercorn (on the Firth of Forth), before having to flee and settle in the abbey of Whitby * Austreberta, virgin (704) - as a girl, she got a foretaste of her future life, when she looked at her reflection in a river and saw a veil over her head * William of Maleval (1157) - his followers established the order of Hermits of St William (or Gulielmites), based from William's settlement near Siena called 'Stabulum Rodis' * Hugh of Fosses (1164) - succeeded St Norbert as second abbot of the mother house of the Premonstratensian Order * Chiara Agolanti da Rimini (1346) - she lived in a hollow in the city wall; known for her excessive penances, she was accused of heresy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Carolyn Muessig Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Bristol [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%