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Today, 5 June, is the feast of ... * Dorotheus of Tyre, martyr (362?) - a priest and perhaps bishop of Tyre, driven into exile during the reign of Diocletian; died under Julian the Apostate, aged 107 * Boniface, archbishop of Mainz, martyr (754) - In 754 Boniface resigned as archbishop of Mainz to return to his earlier attempt to convert the Frisians. His attempts were met with great hostilites by the locals, and he and fifty-two companions (some accounts say thirty-seven) were killed at Dokkum on the River Borne. * Sanctius or Sancho, martyr (851) - today's martyrdom technique: he was extended on the ground and impaled while still alive, in front of several comrades * Meinwerk, bishop of Paderborn (1036) - his last work was to build a church patterned after that of the Holy Sepulchre, to contain relics brought to him from Jerusalem by an abbot named 'Wino' * Ferdinand of Portugal (1443) - before dying in prison, he had a vision of Mary, the archangel Michael and John the Evangelist - imprisoned with his secretary and future hagiographer, Alvarez ***************** Dr Carolyn Muessig Department of Theology and Religious Studies University of Bristol Bristol BS8 1TB UK phone: +44(0)117-928-8168 fax: +44(0)117-929-7850 e-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%