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Today (8. March) is the feast day of:
1) Felix of East Anglia (F. of Dunwich, F. of Burgundy; d. 647 or 648). The Burgundian Felix was ordained priest in his homeland before undertaking missionary work in England. In 630 or 631 St. Honorius, archbishop of Canterbury made him bishop of the East Angles, where the royalty was only recently Christian. F. established his see at a place called Dommoc (perhaps Dunwich, perhaps Felixstowe). According to Bede -- to whom we owe all our knowledge of the historical F. --, he helped king Sigeberht establish a school for boys. F.'s feast today is recorded in pre-Conquest calendars. Ramsey Abbey (founded in the tenth century) claimed to possess his relics.
2) Litifred of Pavia (d. 874). The earlier of Pavia's two bishops Litifred, L. was in office from 864 until his death. He presided at the translation in Pavia of St. Honorata, sister of bishop St. Epiphanius. L.'s relics are kept in Pavia Cathedral's chapel of the Sacred Heart.
3) Veremund of Irache (d. late 11th cent.). V. (Veremundo; Bermudo) succeeded an uncle as abbot of the monastery of the BVM at today's Ayegui (Navarra). He first appears in office in an inscription from 1056. A counselor of Sancho Garcés IV (d. 1076) and of Sancho Ramírez (d. 1094), kings of Navarre, he oversaw significant increases in the abbey's influence and in its wealth. A cult sprang up not long after V.'s death and spread rapidly within the kingdom. But his hagiography is said to begin only with Irache's lectionary of 1547. In 1583 V.'s remains (since distributed all across Navarra) were translated to a new display coffin in the abbey church. Before that he had been buried next to the main altar in the apse.
Expandable views of the abbey's twelfth-/thirteenth-century church are here:
http://www.romanicoennavarra.info/album_irache.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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