Today, 29 May, is the feast of ...
* Cyril of Caesarea, martyr (251?)
- a boy martyr, brought by his own father to the local governor
for not paying respect to idols
* Maximinus, bishop of Trier (c. 347)
- hosted the exiled Athanasius for two years
* Sisinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander, martyrs (397)
- the second-mentioned one has the best name for a martyr I've yet
seen; all three preached in the Tyrolese Alps
* Theodosia, virgin and martyr (745)
- led a band of women who rebelled against an edict ordering the
destruction of an icon
* William, Stephen, Raymund and companions, martyrs (1242)
- these twelve -- three Dominicans, two Franciscans, two
Benedictines, four other clerics and a layman -- were martyred in
Avignonet, south-west of Toulouse, as they tried to convert the
Albigensians in the area
* Pietro Petroni (1361)
- a Carthusian, and native of Siena
- he, through his protege Gioacchino Ciani, was responsible for
the 'conversion' of Boccaccio
(I seem to recall that back in the autumn, there was a saint -- Giovanni
da Capestrano? -- whose post-mortem miracles at his tomb caused such a
disturbance that, out of obedience to the way of life of his living
brethren, he ceased performing such miracles. This was reportedly the case
with Pietro.)
* Richard Thirkeld, martyr (1583)
- an old priest, found guilty of treason in Elizabethan England
* Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, virgin (1607)
- subject to ecstasies and raptures, and with gift of prophecy, she
fasted continually, and was subject to violent temptations of gluttony and
impurity; canonized in 1669
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George Ferzoco
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