Today, 8 June, is the feast of ...
* Maximin d'Aix (first century?)
- one of Jesus's seventy-two disciples, he left Palestine after the Ascension with
Mary Magdalen, Martha, Lazarus, Mary Cleophas, Mary Salome and others in order to
evangelize Provence; the head of Mary Magdalen is still supposed to be in the church
dedicated to Maximin
Two years ago, Sophie Oosterwijk noted the following:
'... although the church of Ste Madeleine in Vezelay, France, owed its fame to its
claim (from the 11th century on) that it held the relics of Mary Magdalen - a claim
discredited already in the Middle Ages
* Medard, bishop of Vermandois (c. 560)
- gave the veil to Radegunde
- in Salency (his native town), if it rains on St Medard's feast the forty ensuing
days will be wet; if the weather is fine, the next forty days will also be fine --
anyone know the forecast?
* Clodulf or Cloud, bishop of Metz (c. 692)
- his father, St Arnoul, was also bishop of Metz
* William, archbishop of York (1154)
- scenes from his life are in the stained glass windows of York
- canonized in 1227 by pope Honorius III
* Giovanni Rainuzzi (1330?)
- relics discovered in 1568: while an exorcism was pronounced in the crypt of a
church in Todi, the demoniac suddenly cried out 'Here rests the body of Blessed John
the Almsgiver'; soon some bones were discovered, with an inscription identifying
these as the remains of Johannes Raynutius de Todi
* Pacifico Ramota (1482)
- author of popular *Sometta di pacifica coscienza*, a work of moral theology;
charged by pope Sixtus IV to preach a crusade against Mohammed II, but he died soon
after beginning to do so
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