Today, 5 June, is the feast of ...
* Dorotheus of Tyre, martyr (362?) - a priest and perhaps bishop of Tyre,
driven into exile during the reign of Diocletian; died under Julian the
Apostate, aged 107
* Boniface, archbishop of Mainz, martyr (754) - In 754 Boniface resinged
as archbishop of Mainx to return to his earlier attempt to convert the
Frisians. His attempts were met with great hostilites by the locals, and
he and fifty-two companions (some accounts say thirty-seven) were killed
at Dokkum on the River Borne.
* Sanctius or Sancho, martyr (851) - today's martyrdom technique: he was
extended on the ground and impaled while still alive, in front of several
comrades
* Meinwerk, bishop of Paderborn (1036) - his last work was to build a
church patterned after that of the Holy Sepulchre, to contain relics
brought to him from Jerusalem by an abbot named 'Wino'
* Ferdinand of Portugal (1443) - before dying in prison, he had a vision
of Mary, the archangel Michael and John the Evangelist - imprisoned with
his secretary and future hagiographer, Alvarez
Carolyn Muessig
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