medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (25. January) is the feast day of:
Juventinus and Maximinus (d. 363) J and M were Roman soldiers stationed in
Antioch at the time of Julian the Apostate. According to legend, they
criticized Julian's laws against Christians and were dismissed from the
army, thrown into prison, tortued, and finally beheaded.
Dwyn (5th/6th cent.) Dwyn was a popular saint in Wales for centuries,
where her name still survives in the place names Llanddwyn and Porthddwyn.
She was a virgin; according to legend she prayed to be delivered from her
would-be husband, who was turned to ice. Dwyn them made three requests of
God: that her suitor be unfrozen, that all true lovers either succeed in
their desire or be cured of their passion, and that she herself would never
want to be married. She became a nun.
Projectus (Priest, Prix) (d. prob. 676) Projectus was bishop of Clermont
(France) in the mid-seventh century. He was acclaimed as a miracle worker
during his lifetime, and had the great advantage (speaking from the
perspective of establishing a cult) of being killed by enemies who wrongly
thought he had done them a bad turn---and is thus sometimes acclaimed as a
martyr.
Poppo of Stablo (d. 1048) One of the great monastic figures of the
eleventh century, Poppo was born to a noble Belgian family in 978. At
first he followed a secular course, but after several pilgrimages entered
the monastery of St-Thierry (Rheims) in 1006. In 1020 Emperor Henry II
named Poppo abbot of the great monasteries of Stablo and Malmedy. This
began nearly thirty years of intensive and sometimes controversial monastic
reform through much of Germany and what is now Belgium.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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