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Today, 28 July, is the feast of ... * Nazarius and Celsus, martyrs (date unknown) - earliest Milanese martyrs; translation of relics by Ambrose was accompanied by many wonders * Victor I, pope and martyr (c. 199) - an African, he is said by Jerome to have been the first in Rome to celebrate liturgy in Latin * Innocent I, pope (417) - quotable quote: 'in all matters of faith, bishops throughout the world should refer to St Peter' * Samson, bishop of Dol (c. 565) - born in Wales, known throughout Britanny for his miracles and missionary journeys (particularly in Cornwall, Scilly Islands and Channel Islands) * Botvid (1100) - Swedish layman, murdered by a Finnish slave he was about to set free A few years ago Jonas Carlquist Dep. of scandinavian languages Stockholm University informed us about the following edition of Botvid's vita: The story about Botvid is edited in Scriptores rerum Suecicarum medii aevi II:1, from page 377 (the edition is taken from the 14/15th century manuscript Codex Laurentii Odonis - a fragment of the same vita is also found in a manuscript from c. 1250). If I remember correctly the slave, liberated by Botvid, who kills Botvid is of Slavonic birth. Botvid was killed on an island called outside Tystberga, Sweden, after a roving expedition at sea. * Antonio della Chiesa (1459) - preached an exemplum, stating that a certain usurer, at his death, lost not only his soul but also his body, which had been carried off by a troop of diabolic horsemen, so that his relatives had had to bury an empty coffin ************************* 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] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%