Today, 29 May, is the feast of ...
* Cyril of Caesarea, martyr (251?) - a boy martyr, brought by his own
father to the local governor for not paying respect to idols
* Maximinus, bishop of Trier (c. 347) - hosted the exiled Athanasius for
two years
* Sisinnius, Martyrius, and Alexander, martyrs (397) - the
second-mentioned one has the best name for a martyr I've yet seen; all
three preached in the Tyrolese Alps
* Theodosia, virgin and martyr (745) - led a band of women who rebelled
against an edict ordering the destruction of an icon
* William, Stephen, Raymund and companions, martyrs (1242) - these twelve
-- three Dominicans, two Franciscans, two Benedictines, four other clerics
and a layman -- were martyred in Avignonet, south-west of Toulouse, as
they tried to convert the Albigensians in the area
* Pietro Petroni (1361) - a Carthusian, and native of Siena - he, through
his protege Gioacchino Ciani, was responsible for the 'conversion' of
Boccaccio
Carolyn Muessig
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