Today, 14 November, is the feast of ...
* Dubricius or Dyfrig, bishop (sixth century)
- founded numerous monastic houses around Hereford and Ross;
according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, he crowned King Arthur at
Colchester
* Laurence O'Toole or Lorcan Ua Tuathail, archbishop (1180)
- son of chieftan of the Murrays; lived as a monk even after election
as archbishop of Dublin; almost murdered by a madman at Canterbury
cathedral, just a few year's after martyrdom of Thomas Becket; died
at abbey of St Victor at Eu (diocese of Rouen); canonized in 1225
* Serapion, martyr (1240)
- as a Mercedarian devoted to the redemption of captives, he himself
was imprisoned in Algiers, where he was nailed to a cross and cut to
pieces
* Giovanni Licio (1511)
- Sicilian Dominican prior, who supposedly died at age of 111
* Josaphat, archbishop of Polotsk, martyr (1623)
- killed for favouring union of Ukrainians with Roman See
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George Ferzoco
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