Today, 17 July, is the feast of ...
* Speratus and companions, the Scillitan martyrs (180) - described in the
earliest 'acta' from Africa
* Marcellina, virgin (c. 398) - sister of St Ambrose, who dedicated his
treatise on virginity to her
* Alexis (fifth century) - said to have lived in Edessa as a beggar, who
revealed on his deathbed that he was really a Roman noble; known as 'the
Man of God', his cult was widespread; a notable example of someone who,
having married, parted from his wife without having consummated the
marriage
* Ennodius, bishop of Pavia (521) - a prolific writer, of whom it has been
said 'He seems to shrink from making himself intelligible lest he should
be thought commonplace'
* Kenelm (c. 812) - 'the boy saint of the Cotswolds'
* Leo IV, pope (855) - often wrongly credited with the institution of the
rite of the 'Asperges' before Sunday mass
* Clement of Okhrida and companions, the seven apostles of Bulgaria
(ninth-tenth century)
* Nerses Lampronatsi, archbishop of Tarsus (1198) - he and other Armenian
bishops effected a reunion of their church with that of Rome; he
translated the *Regula Benedicti* and Gregory's *Dialogues* into Armenian
* Ceslaus (1242) - brother of St Hyacinth, with whom he became a Dominican
Carolyn Muessig
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