Today, 13 March, is the feast of ...
* Euphrasia or Eupraxia, virgin (c. 420)
- stepdaughter of Theodosius I, she was a great ascetic: she once stood
upright in one spot for thrity days until she lost consciousness
* St Mochoemoc, abbot (seventh century)
- nephew of St Ita, teacher of St Dagan and St Cuanghas
* Gerald of Mayo, abbot (732)
- Northumbrian monk of Lindisfarne, he took a band of English monks over
to Mayo, where they ended up living apart from nearby Irish monks
* Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinople (828)
- died in exile in the fifteenth year of his banishment
* Ansovinus, bishop of Camerino (840)
- lived as a miracle-working hermit-priest before accepting nomination
to the episcopacy
* Heldrad, abbot (c. 842)
- after building a hospice near a major market, he became a pilgrim
before settling in an alpine monastery
* Roderic and Solomon, martyrs (857)
- Cordoban victims of Muslims; after their execution, guards threw into
a nearby stream the pebbles stained with the martyrs' blood, to keep
people from taking them as relics
* Agnello da Pisa (1236)
- founder of the English Franciscan province
For more on Agnello (following a question posed by Gary Dickson),
Jessalynn Bird suggests consulting Rosalind Brooke's *Early Franciscan
Government*.
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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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