Today, 20 June, is the feast of ...
* Silverus, pope and martyr (c. 537) - was the son of Pope Saint Hormisdas
* Goban or Gobain, martyr (c. 670) - a disciple of St Fursey, accompanying
him to East Anglia; then went to Gaul with St Ultan
* Bagnus or Bain, bishop of Therouanne (c. 710) - evangelized the area
around Calais
* Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg (981) - chosen by Otto the Great to
evangelize the Wends; wasn't entirely successful, given the crusades
against them centuries later
* John of Matera, abbot of Pulsano (1139) - built a monastery three miles
from the site of the appearance of St Michael on Mount Gargano; this
served effectively as the centre of the congregation named after this
mountain
* Michelina da Pesaro, widow (1356) - converted to a life of poverty by a
Franciscan tertiary named Syriaca; once, when Michelina failed to resist
the temptation to eat pork, she beat herself with an iron chain until the
blood flowed: she exclaimed to herself, 'Do you still want pork,
Michelina? Do you still want pork?' Not after that, she didn't.
* Osanna da Mantova, virgin (1505) - a Dominican, whose early ecstasies
were originally thought to be epileptic fits (indeed, her first vision was
at age five)
Carolyn Muessig
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