Today, 23 July, is the feast of ...
* Apollinaris, bishop of Ravenna, martyr (date unknown)
- only known martyr of Ravenna; one of my favourite churches is St
Apollinaris in Classe, with its hypnotic mosaic apse -- I literally sat
staring at it for an hour!
* The Three Wise Men (first century)
- for any questions about their cult, just ask fellow
medieval-religion member Francesco Scorza Barcellona!
* Liborius, bishop of Le Mans (fourth century)
- he is invoked against 'gravel and allied complaints', apparently
following pope Clement XI's devotion to him
* John Cassian, abbot (c. 433)
- he opens his work, *Institutes of the Monastic Life*, with this
declaration:
'I shall make no attempt to relate anecdotes of miracles and prodigies.
For although I have heard of many unbelievable marvels from my elders and
have seen some with my own eyes, I have wholly omitted them because they
contribute nothing but astonishment to the instruction of the reader in
the perfect life.'
Cassian may have been a great abbot, but he would have been a poor
listowner.
* Romula and companions, virgins (sixth century)
- as Romula died, angelic music was heard, becoming faint as her
soul was being taken away
* Anna or Susanna, virgin (c. 918)
- when her tomb -- the site of many miraculous cures -- was
opened, her body was found undecayed and smelling sweet
* Giovanna da Orvieto, virgin (1306)
- a Dominican, known for her many ecstasies and strange miracles;
in one, she confessed to her spiritual director in Orvieto when in fact he
was lying dead in Bologna
* Lorenzo da Brindisi (1619)
- famous Capuchin preacher
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George Ferzoco
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