medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (10. July) is the feast day of:
Seven Brothers (2nd cent.) These are seven martyrs buried in various Roman
cemeteries. A late Acta says that they were brothers, the sons of the
also-martyred Felicity, perhaps in a conscious effort to produce a
Christian version of the Maccabees and their mother.
Irenaeus and Mustiola (3rd cent.) I and M were martyred in Chiusi
(Tuscany). According to legend, Irenaeus was a deacon who got in trouble
with Roman authorities by burying the body of the martyred St. Felix (a
priest of Sutri). I. was put in chains and thrown into prison, where he in
turn was visited and aided by the noblewoman Mustiola. Both were martyred.
Pasquier (d. late 7th cent.) Pasquier was bishop of Nantes. The only
known act of his episcopate is his foundation of the monastery of Indre on
an island in the Loire, obtaining monks for the purpose from Fontenelle.
Pasquier's cult is attested from the twelfth century on.
Antony of the Caves (d. 1073) Antony was a Russian, born near Chernigov in
983. In c. 1028 he became a hermit, either in the Balkans or on Mt. Athos;
when he returned to Russia he settled in a cave at Kiev. Others soon
joined him, creating the first purely Russian monastery (Kievo-Pecherskaya
Lavra). Antony himself soon left his community and returned to the
eremitical life, coming back to Kiev only to die.
Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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