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Today (10. September) is the feast day of:
Nemesian and companions (d. 257) Nemesian was a Numidian bishop,
imiprisoned with eight other bishops and assorted clerics and
laypeople at Alexandria. They were put to work in a marble quarry
and all died there, either from the hardship or by execution.
Pulcheria (d. 453) Pulcheria was an augusta, the daughter of Emperor
Arcadius and Eudoxia. P. served as regent for her underage brother
Theodosius. She took a vow of virginity, perhaps more for political
than religious reasons. When Theodosius grew up, P. came into
conflict with his wife, a disagreement exacerbated by the fact that
the new empress supported the Nestorians while P. was orthodox. P.
also supported orthodoxy against monophysitism. When Theodosius died
in a hunting accident in 450, P. was proclaimed empress (making a
chaste marriage with General Marcian). The two called the council of
Chalcedon in 451.
Finnian of Moville (d. c. 579) The Irish Finnian founded several
monasteries in Ulster; his most famous disciple was Colum Cille.
Legend credits F. with a pilgrimage to Rome, a great many miracles
(including moving a river), and fun stuff like that.
Theodard (d. c. 670) Theodard succeeded St. Remaclus as abbot of
Stablo-Malmedy in 653 and as bishop of Tongre-Maastricht in 662. He
was murdered by a band of robbers near Speyer.
Aubert (d. c. 725) Aubert was a bishop of Avranches, known mostly
for a vision he had of the archangel Michael that led him to build
the monastery of Mont St-Michel.
Nicholas of Tolentino (d. 1305) Nicholas became an Augustinian in
1263. In 1274 he was sent to the city of Tolentino, where he became
famous as a preacher and confessor (as well as a miracle worker)
during the thirty years he worked there before his death. N. was
canonized in 1446.
A great many modern saints, the victims of the Great Martyrdom at
Nagasaki (d. 1622) Today are commemorated 52 beati who were killed
in the great purge of Christians in seventeenth-century Japan. 23
missionaries and native Christians were burned alive; 29 more were
beheaded. 54 people were actually executed on this date, but two
managed to crawl out of the fire (whereupon they were thrown back in)
and are not counted as martyrs because they clearly didn't want to be
there.
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