Today, 2 June, is the feast of ...
* Pothinus and companions, martyrs of Lyon and Vienne (177)
- Pothinus was bishop, and according to his successor St Irenaeus,
he had 'listened to those who had seen the Apostles'
* Erasmus or Elmo, bishop and martyr (303?)
- popularly represented with a large aperture in his body through
which his intestines have been wound around an instrument of torture next
to him; invoked against cramp and colic, especially in children
- also patron of mariners; 'St Elmo's fire' is name given to blue
electrical discharges around the masts of ships (under certain atmospheric
conditions); may Elmo protect medieval-religionists from the effects of
computer radiation :-)
* Marcellinus and Peter, martyrs (304)
- Constantine built a church over their tomb; they were translated
in 827, sent by pope Gregory IV to Eginhard (Charlemagne's former
secretary) and deposited at Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt
* Eugenius I, pope (657)
- named pope about a year after pope St Martin I had been carried
off from Rome; Martin approved the appointment before he died
* Stephen, bishop in Sweden, martyr (1075?)
- supposedly martyred either in Uppsala or Norrala; can Jonas
Carlqvist tell us more?
* Nicholas the pilgrim (1094)
- a pious and simple Greek who wandered in Puglia; used to bear a
cross in his right hand as he went along, chanting 'Kyrie eleison'
* Sadoc and companions, martyrs (1260)
- while sitting in the refectory, the lector suddenly announced,
as from a martyrology, 'At Sandomir [where they were, in Poland],
forty-nine martyrs'; the next day, they were all killed by singing the
'Salve Regina'
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
and...
* medieval-religion
- the first test message was sent to the nascent list on this date
in 1995
:-) !!!!!
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
George Ferzoco
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|