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May I presume on behalf of fellow list-members to tell Phyllis she has done a wonderful job these last twelve months. The industry is prodigious, let alone the coverage. I've been particularly glad to see notes on a number of Eastern saints not, I think, previously dealt with. Carry on the good work! Forza, Phyllis!
Graham
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From: Phyllis Jestice [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 22 June 2002 01:59
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 22. June
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Dear List Members:
Since I'm now starting my second year of this column, it seemed a good
time to shift to a new perspective. For the past year, I relied most
heavily on two German saints' encyclopedias (thus all the obscure Bavarian,
etc. saints I came up with). This year, my main sources are going to be
Piero Bargellini's "Mille Santi del giorno" and Piero Lazzarin's "Il Nuovo
libro dei santi." Apologies in advance---my Italian is rather rusty, so I
may make a few ludicrous mistakes along the way. But at least (unlike the
Bildlexikon der Heiligen) these books have few pictures, so I won't
constantly be confronted with the sneering head of St. Lawrence and the
stigmatized hands of Padre Pio as I write my column.
Phyllis
Today (22. June) is the feast day of:
the 10,000 Martyrs (?) Acacius and 10,000 companions are mythical martyrs
whose cult appears to have begun in Armenia; Farmer points out that their
Acts are suspiciously similar to those of Maurice and the Theban legion.
The Acts date from the 12th century, and the earliest evidence of a cult is
from the time of the crusades. According to the legend, all 10,000 of them
were crucified by a pagan army.
Paulinus of Nola (d. 431) Born to a noble Roman family in Bordeaux, at
first Paulinus followed a career of marriage and government work. But
after the death of his only son, Paulinus decided to give up secular life,
giving up all his goods to the poor and becoming a monk. He was ordained a
priest in 394, but managed to remain in the monastery until 409 when he was
"elected" bishop of Nola by popular acclaim (after moving from Spain to
Campania). Little information has survived about Paulinus as pastor, but
he was a noted religious author.
John Fisher (d. 1535) John Fisher was born in Beverley (England) in 1469.
In time he ecame confessor of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VIII,
profesor at Cambridge, and noted humanist. When Henry VIII decided to
divorce Catherine of Aragon, however, Fisher upheld the papal position and
was arrested after he refused to swear to the acts of succession and
supremacy. The pope tried to prevent Fisher's execution by naming him to
the cardinalate; he was executed anyway.
Thomas More (d. 1535) An even more noted humanist, who rose to become
Henry VIII's chancellor. More also refused to accept Henry as supreme head
of the church in England, and was executed.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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