Today, 17 August, is the feast of ...
*Mamas, martyr (275): According to Eastern tradition Mamas was a young
boy who was stoned to death during the reign of Aurelian. The Roman
martyrology, however, says that he underwent a prolonged persecution
from youth to old age.
*Eusebius, pope (310): Was elected in succession to Pope Marcellus.
*Liberatus and his Companion, martyrs (484): Seven monks, including the
abbot Liberatus and the deacon Boniface, were martyred during the reign
of Huneric, an Arian Vandal king.
*Hyacinth, Dominican (1257): Born in the district of Oppeln between
Breslau and Cracow, Hyacinth was venerated as the apostle of Poland.
*Clare of Montefalco, Franciscan tertiary/Augustinian nun (1308): The
Franciscans and Augustinians at one time disputed whether Clare belonged
to one or the other order. Both orders came to the agreement that the
community in which Clare lived consisted of Franciscan tertiaries,
but when they wished to adopt a regular conventual life the bishop of
Spoleto gave them the Augustinian rule. As a child, she had visions of
the infant Jesus, Mary and the infant Jesus, and of Paradise.
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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