Today, 14 March, is the feast of ...
* Leobinus or Lubin, bishop of Chartres (c. 558)
- alternated public life with periods as a hermit; took part in the Fifth Council
of Orleans and the Second Council of Paris
* Eutychius or Eustathius (741)
- martyred at Carrhae in Mesopotamia by Muslims; his relics worked many miracles
* Matilda, widow (968)
- a noble, she left her inheritance to her sons and retired to her country
residence; when her son Otto went to Rome to be crowned emperor, he left the
kingdom in her charge; buried in Quedlinburg (any sermons by Jordan of
Quedlinburg preached on her feast?)
* Jacopo, archbishop of Naples (1308)
- a disciple of Giles of Rome, he spent considerable periods in Paris before
being named archbishop, first of Benevento, then of Naples
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George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask]
School of Modern Languages
LEICESTER LE1 7RH UNITED KINGDOM
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