Today, 6 July, is the feast of ...
* Romulus, bishop of Fiesole, martyr (90?) - like the founder of Rome,
he was supposedly suckled by a wolf
* Dominica, virgin and martyr (303?) - cult centred in Tropea
(Calabria); perhaps confused with Byzantine St Cyriaca
* Sisoes (c. 429) - lived in vicinity of the mountain where St Antony
had died
* Goar (c. 575) - wrongly brought to trial before the bishop of Trier,
this hermit was cleared thanks to a three-day-old child's testimony
* Sexburga, abbess of Ely, widow (c. 699) - sister of saints Etheldreda,
Ethelburga and Withburga, and half-sister of St Sethrida; honoured in
England and Sweden
* Modwenna, virgin (seventh century?) - a recluse who lived on a small
island called Andresey, in the Trent River (England)
* Godeleva, martyr (1070?) - drowned in a river of Flanders; the site
became a place of pilgrimage, where people drink the water and invoke
the saint's intercession against sore throats
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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
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