Interim Saints - April 10th
BEDE THE YOUNGER, monk (A.D. 883)
By a curious blunder, this Bede is confounded with the Venerable Bede
of Jarrow, who died 735.
MACARIUS OF ANTIOCH, bishop (A.D. 1012)
In 1011, there arrived in Ghent an Armenian ecclesiastic, Macarius by
name, who called himself archbishop of Antioch. Those were not
critical days, and Erembold, the good abbot of S. Bavo, who received
him, made no enquiries as to what Antioch he came from; whether that
in Syria, or that in Pisidia . . . he was unable to leave Ghent owing
to the swelling of his feet though he greatly desired to return into
his own land, and when, shortly after, the plague raged in Ghent, the
aged Oriental was stricken with it and died, after having had his bear
shaved - sorry, beard shaved - and having requested the abbot to send a
portion to his mother at Antioch.
Oriens.
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