Today, 4 June, is the feast of ...
* Quirinus, bishop of Siscia, martyr (308) - killed by being thrown into
the river Raab with a stone around his neck
* Metrophanes, bishop of Byzantium (c. 325) - bishop in the days of
Constantine
* Optatus, bishop of Milevis (c. 387) - wrote against the Donatists
* Petroc, abbot (sixth century) - a Welshman, he ran the monastery of
Lanwethinoc, founded by St Wethinoc; sometime before the eleventh century
the monks moved to Bodmin in Cornwall, taking Petroc's body with them - in
1177 the relics were stolen by one of the canons of Bodwin priory,
who gave them to the abbey of Saint-Meen in Brittany, but king Henry II
obliged the community there to restore the remains; they did so, in a
reliquary that was the gift of Walter of Coutances - this reliquary was
hidden during the Reformation and forgotten; re-discovered in the
eighteenth century, this in turn was stolen in 1994, and was restored to
Bodwin two years ago on this very day being
Carolyn Muessig
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