Today, 30 June, is the feast of ...
* Martial, bishop of Limoges (c. 250)
- an eleventh-century vita claims that he was one of the
seventy-two disciples of Jesus;
* Bertrand, bishop of Le Mans (623)
- was particularly concerned with the planting of vineyards in his
diocese
* Erentrude, virgin (c. 718)
- in the early eleventh century, emperor St Henry attributed his
cure from illness to her intervention
* Theobald or Thibaud of Prvins (1066)
- travelled with another noble, Walter, to Reims, Suxy (Ardennes),
forest of Pettingen (Luxemburg), Compostela, Rome and other Italian holy
places before settling in Salanigo, near Vicenza
* Arnulf of Villers (1228)
- a Cistercian lay-brother known for his mortifications and
penitential exercises; in later years he suffered from St Vitus's Dance,
and while scourging himself he would laugh and dance
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George Ferzoco
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