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Today (1. March) is the feast day of:

Eudokia (d. c. 115?)  According to legend, Eudokia was a sinner from the
region of modern Lebanon, who was converted by a monk.  She is supposed to
have given all her possessions to the local bishop and to have entered a
convent, spending the rest of her life in penitence.  Legend reports that
she proclaimed herself to be a Christian and was martyred (by simple
beheading without frills) in the time of Trajan.

Felix II (III) (d. 492)  This pope was a Roman, a widower and father of
several children (his descendants include Gregory the Great).  He was
elected pope in 483 (he is Felix II or III depending on whether one counts
as a legitimate pope the Felix who pontificated during the exile of Pope
Liberius 355-358 ).  He was an energetic pope, especially in attempts to
prevent imperial influence over bishops.

David of Menevia (of Wales) (d. c. 589 or 601)  David is one of the most
honored saints of the British Isles; he is the patron of Wales, and his
tomb at St. David's was, until the Reformation, one of the most-visited
pilgrimage sites of the islands.  David lived as a hermit in Wales, but is
also credited with founding and serving as first abbot of St. David's, as
well as serving as bishop of Dyfed.

Suitbert the Elder (d. 713)  Suitbert was a monk from Northumbria.  In 690
he went with Willibrord as a missionary to the Frisians.  In c. 692
Suitbert was consecrated as a bishop without fixed see---without the
agreement of Mayor of the Palace Pepin, who proceeded to make his
missionary work impossible.  So Suitbert sought a new mission field in
south Westfalia, where he had no success.  Disappointed, Suitbert withdrew
to an island in the Rhine, where in c. 710 he founded the monastery of
Kaiserswerth (earlier Swidbertswerth).

Leo of Rouen (d. 909)  Legend reports that Leo was from the territory that
was soon to become Normandy.  At the end of the ninth century he became
bishop of Rouen.  But he abdicated to go as a missionary to Basque
territory, where he was killed by pirates near Bayonne.

Rudesind (Rosendo) (d. 977)  Rudesind, born in 907 to a Spanish royal
family, became bishop of Dumio in 925.  In 940 he abdicated to become a
monk in the convent of Cellanova that he founded.  After years as monk and
then abbot, in c. 970 Rudesind was given the control of the bishopric of
Compostela until his death.  Rudesind was canonized in 1195.

Roger le Fort (d. 1368) (blessed)  Roger was one of the leading French
churchmen of the fourteenth century.  In 1321 he became bishop of Orleans,
in 1328 bishop of Limoges, and in 1343 archbishop of Bourges.  He was
famous both as a preacher and as a jurist, and also for giving all his
income for the education of poor boys.

Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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