Today, 24 July, is the feast of ...
* Christina of Tyre, and Christina of Bolsena, virgins and martyrs (date
unknown)
- two closely related tales, with C. of Tyre's cult predominant in
the East, and C. of Bolsena's in the West
- Christina(s)'s main claim to fame was the ability to resist many
different attempts at torturing and killing her/them
* Lewina, virgin and martyr (date unknown)
- unknown until the translation of her relics (with those of
saints Ideberga and Oswald) from Seaford in Sussex to the church of st
Winnoc in Bergues, Flanders, in 1058
* Declan, bishop (sixth century)
- held see of Ardmore
* Boris and Gleb, martyrs (1015)
- brothers, sons of st Vladimir of Kiev, killed on orders of their
eldest brother Svyatopolk
* Christina, virgin (1224)
- often called 'Christina the Astonishing', for her many mystical
experiences and bizarre behaviour were, well, rather astonishing
* Cunegund, or Kinga, virgin (1292)
- niece of st Elizabeth of Hungary; when born, her first cry was
'Ave Maria'
* Nicholas, bishop of Linkoping (1391)
- enforced clerical celibacy in his Swedish diocese; wrote several
liturgical offices, including hymn *Rosa rorans bonitatem* in honour of st
Birgitta
* Felicia of Milan, virgin (1444)
- a Poor Clare, she ran a Milanese convent before being sent to
found a new one in Pesaro, where she was welcomed by huge crowds
* Giovanni da Tossignano, bishop of Ferrara (1446)
- originally a member of the Gesuati, a lay nursing congregation;
during Council of Ferrara, Giovanni hosted the pope (Eugenius IV), the
emperor (John VIII Palaiologos) and patriarch of Constantinople
* Agostino da Biella (1493)
- Dominican prior of several Piedmontese priories
* Durham Martyrs of 1594
- these were John Speed, John Boste, George Swallowell, and John
Ingram
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George Ferzoco
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