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Today, 26 May, is the feast of ... * Quadratus, bishop of Athens (c. 129) - wrote a treatise (now lost) to emperor Hadrian in defence of Christians; in it, he claimed to have known persons healed or resurrected by Jesus * Priscus or Prix, and companions, martyrs (c. 272) - during Aurelian persecution, they fled from Besancon to Auxerre, but were killed there; their bodies were discovered by Germanus in the early fifth century * Lambert, bishop of Vence (1154) - oblate and monk of Lerins before serving as bishop for 40 years * Eva of Liege, virgin (c. 1265) - helped institute the feast of Corpus Christi; pope Urban IV sent her the bull authorizing the feast * Philip Neri (1595) - founder of the Oratorians; one of the earliest of its priests was Baronius, the historian Carolyn Muessig [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%