medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 16:57:48 -0700, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>Today (23. September) is the feast day of:
>
>Linus (d. c. 80) Linus' feast was suppressed in 1969. Early lists name
>Linus the bishop of Rome after St. Peter. Irenaeus identifies him with
>the Linus mentioned in 2 Tim. 4:21, but other than that nothing seems to
>be
>known of him. In the West, Linus was venerated as a martyr, but modern
>spoilsports have pointed out that there was no known persecution during
>his time in office---the reason for the suppression of his feast.
Given the date of the suppression, perhaps the spoilsports were blue
meanies?
Gordon
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