Today, 22 March, is the feast of ...
* Paul of Narbonne (c. 290)
- although there was a legend that he was the pro-consul
Sergius Paulus of Cyprus, the wise man who desired to hear
the word of God (Acts xiii,7), and was sent by St Paul the
Apostle to convert the south of Gaul, it is told by Gregory
of Tours that he was among the great wave of early French
missionaries (including Saturninus, Dionysius, Trophimus,
Martial and Gatian)
* Basil of Ancyra, martyr (362)
- opposed by his semi-Arian bishop Basil, this Basil was
killed during the persecution under Julian the Apostate
* Deogratias, bishop of Carthage (457)
- succeeded as bishop the equally funnily named
Quodvultdeus
* Isnardo da Chiampo (1244)
- a Dominican, remarkable for the story told about him:
although he was a great ascetic, he remained a large man,
and once during a sermon of his, a bystander called out, 'I
could no more believe in the holiness of an old porpoise
like Brother Isnardo than I could believe that that barrel
there would jump up of itself and break my leg'; guess
whose leg broke, and how?
* Benvenuto Scotivoli (1282)
- this bishop of Osimo, while dying, asked to be carried
into his church and, in imitation of Francis of Assisi, be
placed upon the ground, where he soon died
* Ugolino Zefferini da Cortona (c. 1470)
- a lily magically grew out of his corpse, and caused many
miraculous cures and events
* Nicholas von Flue (1487)
- one of the most famous of Swiss saints, he lived as a
hermit for twenty years after his wife died
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|