Today, 8 June, is the feast of ...
* Maximin d'Aix (first century?)
- one of Jesus's seventy-two disciples, he left Palestine after the
Ascension with Mary Magdalen, Martha, Lazarus, Mary Cleophas, Mary
Salome and others in order to evangelize Provence; the head of Mary
Magdalen is still supposed to be in the church dedicated to Maximin
Two years ago, Sophie Oosterwijk noted the following:
'... although the church of Ste Madeleine in Vezelay, France, owed its
fame to its claim (from the 11th century on) that it held the relics of
Mary Magdalen - a claim discredited already in the Middle Ages
* Medard, bishop of Vermandois (c. 560)
- gave the veil to Radegunde
- in Salency (his native town), if it rains on St Medard's feast the
forty ensuing days will be wet; if the weather is fine, the next forty
days will also be fine -- anyone know the forecast?
* Clodulf or Cloud, bishop of Metz (c. 692)
- his father, St Arnoul, was also bishop of Metz
* William, archbishop of York (1154)
- scenes from his life are in the stained glass windows of York
- canonized in 1227 by pope Honorius III
* Giovanni Rainuzzi (1330?)
- relics discovered in 1568: while an exorcism was pronounced in the
crypt of a church in Todi, the demoniac suddenly cried out 'Here rests
the body of Blessed John the Almsgiver'; soon some bones were
discovered, with an inscription identifying these as the remains of
Johannes Raynutius de Todi
* Pacifico Ramota (1482)
- author of popular *Sometta di pacifica coscienza*, a work of moral
theology; charged by pope Sixtus IV to preach a crusade against
Mohammed II, but he died soon after beginning to do so
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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