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Today, 31 May, is the feast of ... * Petronilla, virgin and martyr (251?) - according to the Roman Martyrology: 'At Rome, [the commemoration of] St Petronilla, Virgin, daughter of the blessed Apostle Peter ...'; 'daughter of the apostle Peter'?????!!!!! * Cantius, Cantianus and Cantianella, martyrs (304?) - beheaded while trying to escape from their persecutors * Mechtildis of Edelstetten, virgin (1160) - at age five, placed by her parents in double monastery they had founded on their own estate at Diessen, on the Ammersee in Bavaria; noted for her ecstasies and healings - this is not Mechtildis of Hackeborn, younger sister of Gertrude of Helfta * James the Venetian (1314) - a Dominican noted for his good works as prior at Forli', Faenza, San Severino and Ravenna; within a year of his death, a confraternity was formed in Forli' to promote his veneration * Angela Merici, virgin (1540) - founded the Company of St Ursula; canonized in 1807 Carolyn Muessig Dept of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%