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Actually, a saint of a few days ago, Paulinus of Nola, was just celebrated
here in New York City by the annual carrying of the Giglio in his honor.
There is a full story with colored pictures and everything on the front page
of the Metro section of today's New York Times.
Jo Ann
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Subject: [M-R] saints of the day 17. July
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Today (17. July) is the feast day of:
>
> Alexis of Rome (?) Suppressed in 1969 just because he's fictitious,
Alexis
> was popular in western Europe and remains popular in the East. The legend
> is that Alexis was of senatorial family. He fled from his wedding, became
> a beggar, and eventually returned---unrecognized---to live under the
stairs
> of his own family home.
>
> Scillitan martyrs (d. 180) Five women and seven men were martyred at
> Scillium (Roman Africa) in the reign of Septimius Severus. The official
> proceedings of their trial are still extant, and important source on early
> Christianity.
>
> Ennodius (d. 521) A Gallo-Roman nobleman, Ennodius became a rhetoric
> professor at Milan until converted during a serious illness. His wife
> became a nun and E. was ordained. He became bishop of Pavia in 510, and
> was a noted poet and hymn writer.
>
> Kenelm (d. 821) This saint was a product of wishful thinking. K. was a
> Mercian prince who died before his father. The completely fictional
legend
> was later invented that K. succeed to his father's throne at the age of
> seven and was murdered at his sister's orders.
>
> Leo IV (d. 855) The source of the term "Leonine city" for the area around
> the Vatican, Leo was a monk who became pope in 847. He took to
> wall-building because of Muslim raids. His combination of prayers and
> organization of the city militia then routed the Muslim raiders at Ostia.
>
> Clement of Ohrid and companions (d. 916) Clement, Nahum, Gorazd,
> Angelarius, and Sabas were all priests who helped Cyri and Methodius as
> missionaries to the Slavs. They were expelled when the mission was
> suppressed in 885 (in favor of the Latin rite) and went on to Bulgaria,
> which was just converting to Christianity. Clement became the first
> archbishop of the Bulgarian church, and first author of original texts in
> Church Slavonic. All five are regarded as apostles of Bulgaria and
> Macedonia.
>
> Andrew Zoerard (d. c. 1010) Andrew was a Polish hermit, associated with a
> Benedictine monastery near Nitra, Slovakia. He was canonized in 1083.
>
> Ceslaus (d. 1242) A good day for holy Poles. Ceslaus was a canon at
> Cracow, then became a Dominican along with (St.) Hyacinth, his brother.
> Ceslaus served as provincial of Poland, and preached in Silesia and
> Bohemia. He helped lead Breslau's resistance to the Mongols in 1240.
>
> Hedwig (Jadwiga) of Poland (d. 1399) Definitely a good day for Poles.
> Hedwig was a daughter of King Louis I of Hungary. In 1384, at the age of
> 10, she was elected queen of Poland, and soon married off to the duke of
> Lithuania---the last non-Christian country in Europe. Hedwig encouraged
> her newly-baptized husband and subjects to accept Christianity,
patronizing
> religious establishments and scholarship, while also making the
> Polish-Lithuanian state a European power. She founded the Jagiellonian
> University at Cracow. Hedwig was canonized in 1997.
>
>
> Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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