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Today (16. February) is the feast day of:
Onesimos (1st cent.) In Onesimos, two people of the same name have
probably been combined. One Onesimos was a slave of Philemon who fled and
became a friend of St. Paul---Paul then wrote asking Philemon to free
Onesimos. Legend makes Onesimos after this time a missionary and bishop of
Ephesos, who died a martyr's death.
Pamphilos of Caesarea (d. 309) Pamphios was born in c. 240 in Beirut
(Lebanon). He was highly educated, entered government service for a short
time, but then became a priest and active as a teacher and theologian in
Caesarea (Palestine). Pamphilos was regarded as the most important Bible
teacher of his time, and also famous for his veneration of the theologian
Origen. He was beheaded in the persecution of Maximinus Daja.
Juliana of Nicomedia (d. 311/313) Juliana was for centuries a particularly
beloved saint in both Italy and Spain. According to legend, she was
martyred during Maximinus Daja's persecution in Nicomedia (Asia Minor).
Her father and a disappointed suitor together had denounced her as a
Christian to the authorities. It is also possible that she was martyred in
the region of Naples, where her relics were venerated since the sixth
century.
Simeon of Metz (d. 380) Simeon was bishop of Metz in the second half of
the fourth century. His relics were translated to the monastery of Senones
in c. 790, and a cult soon developed.
Ludanus (d. 1202) Ludanus is supposed to have been the son of a Scottish
duke, who while returning from a pilgrimage to Rome (or maybe Jerusalem)
died near St-Lotten in Alsace. His tomb attracted its own pilgrimage
cult---a pilgrimage that remains alive today.
Peter of Castelnau (d. 1208) Peter, born in France in c. 1170, became a
Cistercian in 1202. In 1203 he began to work as a papal legate. He made a
lot of enemies, and seems to have been rather undiplomatic in his approach
to his duties. On this day in 1208 he was murdered in southern France.
Because he was engaged on a mission against the Cathars, the pope
proclaimed Peter a martyr and canonized him---still in the year 1208 (one
of the quickest canonizations on record?). His cult is still active in
several southern French dioceses.
Philippa Mareri (blessed) (d. 1236) Philippa was born in c. 1200 in Mareri
(Italy). She became acquainted with both Francis and Clare of Assisi and
under their influence founded a Clarissan convent in Mareri, leading it as
abbess. She won admiration for her exceptional penitential practices, and
a strong cult developed after her death. She was beatified in 1806.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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