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Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Friday, 19 October 2012
Saint Pega and the relics of a saint
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| Book of The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints Alban Butler (1895) Project Gutenburg © Godric Godricson |
She was sister to St. Guthlack, the famous hermit of Croyland, and though of the royal blood of the Mercian kings, forsook the world, and led an austere retired life in the country which afterwards bore her name, in Northamptonshire, at a distance from her holy brother. Some time after his death she went to Rome, and there slept in the Lord, about the year 719. Ordericus Vitalis says, her relics were honored with miracles, and kept in a church which bore her name at Rome, but this church is not now known. From one in Northamptonshire, a village still retains the name of Peagkirk, vulgarly Pequirk; she was also titular saint of a church and monastery in Pegeland, which St. Edward the Confessor united to Croyland
Thursday, 18 October 2012
St. Gervasius and St. Protasius
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| A Treatise on Relics - John Calvin (1870) - Project Gutenburg |
"The sepulchres of these two saints were discovered at Milan in the time of St Ambrose, as testified by him. This fact is confirmed also by the evidence of St Jerome, St Augustine, and several others; consequently Milan maintains its possession of the real bodies of these saints. Nevertheless, they are likewise to be seen at Brissach in Germany, and in the Church of St Peter at Besançon, besides an immense number of different parts of their bodies scattered throughout the land, so that each of them must have had at least four bodies. "
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