Today, 29 April, is the feast of ...
Wilfrid the Younger, bishop of York (744): Amongst the bishops mentioned
by the Venerable Bede as having been educated at Whitby Abbey under the
rule of St Hilda was Wilfrid, the favourite student of John of Beverley.
Hugh the Great, abbot of Cluny (1109): Abbot of Cluny for sixty years,
adviser of nine popes, consulted and venerated by all the sovereigns of
western Europe, and entrusted with the ultimate control of two hundred
monasteries.
Robert of Molesmes, abbot (1110): Honoured as one of the founders of the
Cistercian order.
Peter of Verona, martyr (1252): About the year 1234, Pope Gregory IX
appointed Peter as inquisitor general for the Milanese territories.
Peter was well aware that he had aroused bitter enmity, and he often
prayed for the grace to die as a martyr. As he was going from Como to
Milan, Peter was waylaid in a wood near Barlassina by two assassins. One
of the assassins struck him on the head with a bull-hook. Grievously
wounded, but still conscious, Peter Martyr commended himself and his
murderer to God in the words of St Stephen. Afterwards, if we may
believe a very old tradition, with a finger dipped in his own blood he
was tracing on the ground the words "Credo in Deum" when his assailant
despatched him with another blow.
Catherine of Siena, Dominican tertiary (1380): Diplomat extraordinaire
to popes, townspeople and politicians.
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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