Today, 1 July, is the feast of ...
* the Precious Blood
- an office 'of the Blood of Christ' was conceded to the
archdiocese of Valencia in 1582
* Shenute, abbot (c. 466)
- quick-tempered and violent abbot of Dair-al-Abaid, near Atripe
in the Thebaid
* Theodoric or Thierry, abbot (533)
- cured king Theodoric I of ophthalmia; founded community at Mont
d'Or, near Reims
* Carilefus or Calais, abbot (c. 540)
- with St Avitus he founded a community in the Maine, around which
grew the town of Saint-Calais (not to be confused with the port of Calais,
across the English Channel from Dover)
* Gall, bishop of Clermont (551)
- a great singer, who served as cantor in the chapel of king
Theodoric
* Eparchius or Cybard (581)
- Gregory of Tours attests to a large cult of this saint
* Simeon Salus (sixth century)
- deemed by many to be a fool (Greek 'salos' = 'mad'); lived in
the desert near the Dead Sea for almost thirty years
* Serf or Servanus, bishop (sixth century?)
- patron and apostle of the Orkney Islands; one legend has it that
he was a son of the king of the Picts, who gave up his right to the throne
and then studied at Alexandria, was made patriarch of Jerusalem and
eventually pope before resigning in order to preach to the Scots
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George Ferzoco
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