Today, 6 May, is the feast of ...
* Evodius, bishop of Antioch (c. 64) - According to tradition, he was one
of the seventy disciples sent out by Jesus to preach. He is supposed to
have coined the word 'Christian'.
* John before the Lateran Gate (94?) The Roman Martyrology relates the
following: 'At Rome, St John was brought before the Latin gate at the
command of Domitian who ordered that John be brought in fetters from
Ephesus to Rome. By verdict of the Senate, he was cast into a cauldron of
boiling oil before the gate, and came forth thence more hale and hearty
than he entered it.'
* Edbert, bishop of Lindisfarne (698) - Ordained successor to St Cuthbert
in the see of Lindisfarne, he governed for eleven years. He made it a
practice to retire twice a year for forty days of solitary prayer to the
tiny island known as St Cuthbert's Isle.
* Petronax, abbot of Monte Cassino (c. 747) - The second founder of the
abbey of Monte Cassino. The monastery had been destroyed by the Lombards
in 581, but Petronax restored Monte Cassino to its former eminence.
* Prudence, Hermitess of St Augustine (1492) - Prudence was superior of
the convent of St Mark at Como. Her life seems to have been quite
uneventful, and her fame rests entirely upon her posthumous miracles.
Carolyn Muessig
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