Oops the last posting flew away before it had wings ...
Today, 10 January, is the feast of ...
* Marcian (471)
- of noble birth, he gave away great sums to the poor before
being ordained (against his will); eventually named
'Oikonomos'
* John the Good, bishop of Milan (660)
- restored the bishopric of his city back to it, from Genoa
(where it had been transferred earlier in the century); his
remains were translated in the eleventh century and again (by
Carlo Borromeo) in 1582
* Agatho, pope (681)
- a Sicilian Greek by birth, he apologized for the poor Greek
of his legates to Constantinople, saying that the barbarian
invasions were such that his people could barely survive, let
alone spend time studying Greek
* Peter Orseolo (987)
- after a period as doge of Venice, he secretly left Venice
and became a monk at Cuxa, and then (at the urging of St
Romuald) he became a hermit
* William, archbishop of Bourges (1209)
- Guillaume de Donjeon was abbot of the Cistercian monastery
of Cha^lis (near Senlis) before being chosen (by lot)
archbishop; he would never eat meat, but always served it to
guests; canonized in 1218 by Honorius III
* Gregory X, pope (1276)
- as archdeacon, he preached the crusade following an order
from pope Clement IV; elected pope after a three-year
interregnum; called the Second Council of Lyon, at which
communion between the Byzantine church and Rome was briefly
effected
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Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Relgious Studies
Univesity of Bristol
c.a.muessig@bristol
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