Today, 10 June, is the feast of ...
* Getulius and companions, martyrs (c. 120)
- Getulius was a soldier before resigning and heading for the
Sabine hills near Tivoli (an astute man!); he, along with some other
ex-soldiers and Christians, was martyred on the Via Salaria
* Ithamar, bishop of Rochester (c. 656)
- first Englishman to occupy an English bishopric
* Landericus or Landry, bishop of Paris (c. 660)
- to him is attributed the foundation of the city's first real
hospital, near Notre-Dame, dedicated to St Christopher; this later grew to
be the Hotel-Dieu (where I was hospitalized for a week in February 1986,
due to food poisoning; merci, s. Landry)
* Olive of Palermo, virgin and martyr (ninth century?)
- a thirteen-year-old maiden, she was captured by Saracens who
took her to Tunis, where she lived in a cave outside the city; when it was
discovered that she was curing people and converting them to Christianity,
she was tortured and beheaded (at which time her soul, in the form of a
dove, was seen to soar upward)
* Margaret of Scotland, matron (1093)
- supposedly altered the behaviour of husband, king Malcolm, so
that he became a most virtuous king; it was written of her: 'there was a
gravity in her very joy, and something stately in her anger'
* Bogumilus, archbishop of Gniezno (1182)
- twin brother of Boguphalus, nephew of local archbishop John;
after five years as archbishop, he left to join the Camaldolese monks
living at Uniow
* Henry of Treviso (1315)
- after his death, 276 miracles were recorded by local notaries
* Bonaventure of Peraga, cardinal (1386)
- held chair of theology at Bologna; was member of Augustinian
Order of Hermits (the first of his order to be named cardinal)
* Giovanni Dominici, archbishop of Ragusa, cardinal (1419)
- vita written by St Antoninus; encouraged pope Gregory XII to
resign as means of ending the schism
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George Ferzoco
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