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Today, 7 September, is the feast of ... * Regina or Reine, virgin and martyr (date unknown) - native of Alise (Bourgogne), she refused a marriage offer from the local Roman prefect; as she was about to be beheaded, a shining dove was seen hovering above her head * Sozon, martyr (date unknown) - the local magistrate tortured him by having nails driven upward through the soles of his shoes; when Sozon marched in front of the magistrate in the arena, he called up to him: 'I have finer red shoes than you!' * Grimonia, virgin and martyr (date unknown) - escaped from Ireland to France in the hope of thus preserving her virginity; she did, but only by defending her honour to the death; on this day in 1231, her relics were enshrined (along with those of another ex-Irish virgin and martyr, St Proba) at Lesquielles * John of Nicomedia, martyr (303) - according to Lactantius, he was burned alive; he has sometimes been erroneously identified with St George, protector of England * Anastasius the Fuller, martyr (304?) - although the Roman Martyrology says this saint died on this date in Aquileia, he really died on 26 August in Split * Clodoald or Cloud (c. 560) - brought up by his grandmother St Clotilda (the widow of Clovis); by a pun on his name, he is venerated in France as patron of nail-makers * Alcmund and Tilbert, bishops of Hexham (781 & 789) - the seventh and eighth bishops of this see Carolyn Muessig [log in to unmask] Dr Carolyn Muessig Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1TB UK phone: +44(0)117-928-8168 fax: +44(0)117-929-7850 e-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%