> Killed by a gang led by a certain Dodo.
Is Dodo a proper name or descriptive of the person?
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CA Muessig [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 1998 9:27 AM
> To: medieval-religion
> Subject: FEAST 17 September
>
> Today, 17 September, is the feast of...
>
> Socrates and Stephen, martyrs (?): Butler writes: "Nothing whatever is
> known of these martyrs and they are only of interest because the Roman
> Martyrology, following the Martyrology of Jerome, says that their
> passion took place in Britain."
>
> Satyrus (379): Eulogized by his younger brother, Ambrose of Milan.
>
> Lambert, bishop of Maastricht, martyr (705): Killed by a gang led by a
> certain Dodo.
>
> Columba, virgin and martyr (853): Native of Cordoba, killed by
> Moslems.
>
> Hildegard of Bingen, abbess of Rupertsberg (1179): AKA in her own day
> as
> the Sibyl of the Rhine.
>
> The Impression of the Stigmata upon St Francis (1224): With the
> exception of Francis, I cannot think of any other male stigmatic from
> the Middle Ages. Are there any others?
>
> In reply to this question two years Gary Dickson wrote:
>
> Male stigmatics: Herbert Thurston's (old but not quite venerable
> collection of studies) "The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism" [not at
> hand] gives the best dossier I know of. Before Francis, there was the
> Bl. Dodo.
>
> Peter Arbues, inquisitor and martyr (1485): His zeal made him many
> enemies.
>
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