Today, 27 May, is the feast of ...
* Restituta of Sora, virgin and martyr (271?) - a Roman noble, she was
taken to Sora by an angel; there, she worked miracles and converted many
to Christianity
* Julius and companions, martyrs (302?) - Julius and his fellow martyrs
were all soldiers who refused to give up their faith
* Eutropius, bishop of Orange (c. 476) - after dissolute youth and a more
sober marriage, was widowed and joined the clergy; Sidonius Apollinaris
was one of his correspondents
* John I, pope and martyr (526) - imprisoned during reign of Theodoric, in
Ravenna
Last year Ghazwan Butrous reminded us that it was also Augustine of
Canterbury's feast day. Here is what Ghazwan wrote:
Today is also the feast of St. Augustine of Canterbury (Roman Catholic
Calender) or 26th of May (Church of England Calender). In 1882 St. Augustine
day become universal by the whole Church. Updated St. Augustine of
Canterbury Web site: http://members.aol.com/butrousch/augustine/index.htm
* Bede, doctor (735) - venerable; much of what we know of him is in
Cuthbert's account of his last hours, and in the closing chapter of his
own ecclesiastical history of the English - the only Englishman in Dante's
*Paradiso*
* Melangell, or Monacella, virgin (?) - earliest extant vita is from the
early sixteenth century - abbess for 37 years, during which time all could
find sanctuary at the site of her community -- particularly hares, known
as 'Melangell's lambs'
Carolyn Muessig
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