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Today, 15 September, is the feast of... * Our Lady of Sorrows - made popular by Servite friars from their inception, but was not made a feast throughout the Western church until 1814 (ed. note: thanks to John Wickstrom, who reminded me to include this feast) * Nicomedes, martyr (date unknown) - Roman martyrology: 'on saying to those who tried to make him sacrifice, "I do not sacrifice except to the almighty God who reigns in Heaven", he was for a long time beaten with leaded whips and under this torture passed to the Lord' * Nicetas the Goth, martyr (375) - the other great martyr among the Goths, Sabas, has 12 April as feast; relics taken to Mopsuestia in Cilicia (hence the cult's presence throughout Byzantine and Syrian churches) * Aichardus / Achard, abbot (c. 687) - abbot of Jumieges (founded by St Philibert); like his predecessor, had gift of foretelling deaths (including his own) * Mirin (seventh century?) - Irish missionary in Scotland, buried at Paisley; when an Irish king opposed him, Mirin laid the pains of childbirth upon him * Aichardus / Achard, monk (c. 1170) - recorded in Cistercian menology; master of novices at Clairvaux * Catherine of Genova, widow (1510) - mystic; wrote treatise on Purgatory and a dialogue of the soul and the body ****************** 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] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%