Today, 9 September, is the feast of ...
* Gorgonius and Dorotheus, martyrs (date unknown)
- killed for protesting against the torments inflicted an a
Christian named Peter
* Isaac or Sahak I, Katholikos of the Armenians (439)
- son of katholikos St Nerses I, he continued his father's work in
bringing his church more in line with Byzantine custom and law; this
meant that he himself became the last of the house of St Gregory the
Enlightener to rule over his church
* Kieran or Queranus or Ciaran, abbot of Clonmacnois (556?)
- his vita contains many great anecdotes; in a practical joke that
he played against his mother, he made it so that the blue dye she was
using became so strong that anything touching it (including dogs and
cats) became entirely blue
* Audomarus or Omer, bishop of Therouanne (c. 670)
- left monastery of Luxeuil to become bishop; took along with him
others who became known as saints: Mommolinus, Bertrand, Gertinus; in
old age, his blindness was cured by the relics of St Vedast
* Bettelin (eighth century)
- in his younger, not-so-saintly years, he almost slit St
Guthlac's throat while shaving him, in the hope that he would succeed
him; he is patron of town of Stafford
* Serafina Sforza, widow (c. 1478)
- driven to the convent by her evil husband, she joined the Poor
Clares; however, it may be that she plotted against her husband in a
not-so-saintly way (cf. B. Feliciangeli, *Sulla monacazione di Sueva
Montefeltro-Sforza. Ricerche*, 1903)
* Luisa da Savoia, widow (1503)
- she established the first known poor-box, into which every
person in her house who used foul language had to put a contribution
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
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