Today, 28 June, is the feast of ...
* Plutarch, Potamiaena and companions, martyrs (c. 202) - Plutarch (and
his brother, St Haraclas, later to be bishop of Alexandria) was converted
by listening to Origen's lectures; a lot of good it did him and his
companions: Plutarch was beheaded, Potamiaena was slowly lowered into a
cauldron of boiling pitch, and her executioner, who converted, was
beheaded
* Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon (c. 203) - of his many writings most are lost;
the most famous was his treatise against the gnostics
* Paul I, pope (767) - died while staying at St Paul's outside the Walls,
where he had gone to escape the summer heat
* Heimrad (1019) - a nomadic wonder worker
* Sergius and Germanus of Valaam, abbots (?) - likely introduced
monasticism to the south-eastern region of Finland
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