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Today, 28 June, is the feast of ... * Plutarch, Potamiaena and companions, martyrs (c. 202) - Plutarch (and his brother, St Haraclas, later to be bishop of Alexandria) was converted by listening to Origen's lectures; a lot of good it did him and his companions: Plutarch was beheaded, Potamiaena was slowly lowered into a cauldron of boiling pitch, and her executioner, who converted, was beheaded * Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon (c. 203) - of his many writings most are lost; the most famous was his treatise against the gnostics * Paul I, pope (767) - died while staying at St Paul's outside the Walls, where he had gone to escape the summer heat * Heimrad (1019) - a nomadic wonder worker * Sergius and Germanus of Valaam, abbots (?) - likely introduced monasticism to the south-eastern region of Finland ****************** Carolyn Muessig Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1TB UK [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%