Today, 12 July, is the feast of ...
* Veronica (first century) - traditionally, this is the compassionate
woman who wiped the face of Jesus, who left the image of his face on the
cloth
* Jason (first century) - Acts 17, 5-9 tells of the troubles faced by
Jason after he hosted Paul in Salonika
* Hermagoras and Fortunatus, martyrs (first century?) - supposedly put in
charge of the church of Aquileia by St Mark
* Nabor and Felix, martyrs (303?) - soldier martyrs, venerated in Milan
and elsewhere in northern Italy
* John the Iberian, abbot (c. 1002) - suffered from gout during last years
of his life
* John Gualbert, abbot (1073) - founder of Vallombrosan Benedictines
* Andrew of Rinn (1462) - a three-year-old boy, supposedly hanged and
slashed to death by Jews, but it seems certain he was killed by a mad
uncle who blamed the incident on some (fictitious) Jewish pedlars
Carolyn Muessig
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