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Today, 23 March, is the feast of ... * Victorian and companions, martyrs (484) - victims of the Arian king of the Vandals, Huneric * Benedict the Hermit (c. 550) - according to Gregory's *Dialogues*, he survived being shut up in an oven by invading Goths * Ethelwald the Hermit (699) - succeeded St Cuthbert as the person with the postal address: Hermitage, Farne Island * Pietro Ghisengi da Gubbio (c. 1250?) - when the *Te Deum* was heard coming from his tomb, it was opened, and there was found Pietro's corpse in a kneeling position, with open mouth and joined hands * Sibillina Biscossi, virgin (1367) - blind from age of twelve, she lived most of her life as an anchoress in a Dominican church of Pavia * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%