medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (27. January) is the feast day of:
Julian of Le Mans (3rd cent.?) A largely legendary figure, Julian
seems to have been first bishop of Le Mans and to have evangelized
that part of Gaul. Less likely is that he was one of the 72 original
disciples, or perhaps even Simon the Leper.
Marius (May) (d. c. 555) Marius was a native of Orleans who became a
monk and was probably the founding abbot of the monastery later named
after him at Bodon. He is supposed to have prophesied the Lombard
invasion of Italy and the destruction of his own monastery.
Vitalian (d. 672) Vitalian was a Campanian, elected pope in 657.
It's unclear to me why he's regarded as a saint---except for the
useful fact that he sent SS. Theodore of Tarsus and Hadrian to
England.
Angela Merici (d. 1540) Angela was a Lombard. She became a
Franciscan tertiary at age 13 and lived one of the ultra-ascetic
lives that seem to have been so popular among holy women of the late
Middle Ages. Which may explain why they had so many visions. Angela
seems to have been more practical than a lot of these ecstatics,
though: she started teaching young girls, opened a school, took
charge of a congregation of nursing nuns, and in 1535 founded the
Ursuline order (devoted to the education of girls). AM was canonized
in 1807.
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