Today, 2 March, is the feast of ...
* The Martyrs under the Lombards (c. 579)
- Gregory the Great (*Dialogues* iii 26-27) tells several
stories of Italians who resisted Lombard attempts to get
them to practice the religion of the Lombards
* Chad or Ceadda, bishop of Lichfield (672)
- trained at Lindisfarne by St Aidan, his life is recorded
by Bede, who learned the details from men who had been
trained by Chad himself
* Charles the Good, martyr (1127)
- a popular medieval-religion saint, whose tomb has been
visited by more than one of the list's members; Charles,
COunt of Flanders and Amiens, was murdered by men whose
business suffered due to the just legislations enforced by
Charles
* Fulk of Neuilly (1201)
- a great preacher, noted for his lack of asceticism (in
fact, one chronicler notes that he would eat any food set
before him)
* Agnes of Bohemia, virgin (1282)
- St Clare called referred to her as her 'half self'; a
descendant of 'good king' Wenceslaus, she founded the first
establishment of Poor Clares north of the Alps
* Henry Suso (1365)
- German Dominican, renowned for his preaching and
spiritual treatises
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
phone: +44(0)117-928-8168
fax: +44(0)117-929-7850
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