Today, 12 July, is the feast of ...
* Veronica (first century) - traditionally, this is the compassionate
woman who wiped the face of Jesus, who left the image of his face on the
cloth
Jo Ann McNamara added the following info about Veroinca:
The same woman appears with the variant name Berenica or Bernice in the
apocryphal gospels where she is revealed to be the woman with the 12
year flow of blood whom Jesus had healed in an earlier episode.
* Jason (first century) - Acts 17, 5-9 tells of the troubles faced by
Jason after he hosted Paul in Salonika
* Hermagoras and Fortunatus, martyrs (first century?) - supposedly put
in charge of the church of Aquileia by St Mark
* Nabor and Felix, martyrs (303?) - soldier martyrs, venerated in Milan
and elsewhere in northern Italy
* John the Iberian, abbot (c. 1002) - suffered from gout during last
years of his life
* John Gualbert, abbot (1073) - founder of Vallombrosan Benedictines
* Andrew of Rinn (1462) - a three-year-old boy, supposedly hanged and
slashed to death by Jews, but it seems certain he was killed by a mad
uncle who blamed the incident on some (fictitious) Jewish pedlars
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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