Today, 2 November, is the feast of ...
* All Souls
- first formal witness to a collective day of the dead is from the first
half of the ninth century, when monasteries would commemorate their dead
as well as the souls of their benefactors
- became more established at Cluny, under St Odilo (for more on Cluny and
this feast, see another message to be posted to the medieval-religion
list)
- in Armenian rite, there is a special commemoration of the dead on Easter
Monday
* Victorinus, bishop of Pettau, martyr (c. 303)
- passio has been lost; Jerome quoted from some of his biblical
commentaries
* Marcian (c. 387)
- lived in desert between Antioch and the Euphrates; went to great lengths
to avoid the people who were looking to claim his body when he died, as he
did not wish there to be any memorial to himself
* Thomas of Walden (1430)
- Carmelite, known for his opposition to Wyclif and the Lollards;
confessor to England's Henry V (who died in his arms at Vincennes in 1422)
- known as *Doctor authenticus*, and *Doctor praestantissimus*
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George Ferzoco
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