> Today, 14 November, is the feast of ...
> * Laurence O'Toole or Lorcan Ua Tuathail, archbishop (1180)
> - son of chieftan of the Murrays; lived as a monk even after election
> as archbishop of Dublin; almost murdered by a madman at Canterbury
> cathedral, just a few year's after martyrdom of Thomas Becket; died
> at abbey of St Victor at Eu (diocese of Rouen); canonized in 1225
His rather splendid late 12th-century tomb survives in the crypt of
the church in Eu, now dedicated to Notre-Dame and St Laurence.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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