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On Eustace: the story here makes even more interesting the medieval tale,
repeated by Dante, that Gregory the Great was so impresssed by Trajan's
Roman virtues and accomplishments that, at his request, an angel was sent
down to hell to preach the Gospel to the emperor (a bit of a theologoical
problem with a sinner condemned to eternal punishiment, but never mind).
Trajan assented to the Good News and thus received a throne among the
blessed.
John W.
John B. Wickstrom
Kalamazoo College
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Subject: saints of the day 20. September
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (20. September) is the feast day of:
Eustace (d. 188?) Suppressed as ahistorical in 1969, the cult of
Eustace was popular in the Middle Ages. The rather extravagant
legend tells that Eustace was a Roman army officer, converted to
Christianity by the miraculous apparition of a stag with a cross
between its antlers. He quit the army, but was recalled in a crisis
and served as a triumphant general under Trajan---but Trajan, that
ingrate, took offense when E. refused to join in the non-Christian
victory celebration. So E. was parboiled to death inside a bronze
bull.
Vincent Madelgarius (d. 677) Madelgaire, or Vincent Madelgarius, is
a saint of Hainault. He married St. Waldetrudis and the couple had
four very saintly children. In c. 643 V. became a monk at the
monastery he founded at Hautmont; he founded another monastery on his
estate at Soignies (Belgium).
A large number of modern saints: Martyrs of Korea (1839-1867) There
were three waves of persecution in Korea, during which hundreds of
Christians were killed. 103 of them have been canonized as martyrs
(in 1984), including 2 bishops and 7 priests.
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