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stitchwhichThe Martyrs of Mar Saba (d. 797) 20 monks of St. Sabas, killed by Arabic raiders in an attack on their monastery. It was a two-fold raid. First a large number of monks were wounded in an attack that was interrupted in mid-pillage by a rescue party. But then the raiders came back. Some of the monks hid in a cave; the raiders lit a large fire at the entrance and slowly asphyxiated them, offering release in return for the monks revealing where their treasure was hidden. Their account was recorded by a survivor, Stephan the Wonderworker (known as ‘the Poet’).
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Mark of Montegallo (d. 1496) Mark was born at Mons Sanctae Mariae in Gallo, today's Montegallo in the Marche. He studied at Perugia and at Bologna, where he obtained degrees in law and medicine. In about 1448 he began a medical practice at Ascoli Piceno and in 1451 he married. A year later the pair separated, with the wife (whose name is said to have been Chiara) becoming a Poor Clare and Mark becoming an Observant Franciscan. He became a well-known preacher and promoter of Monti di Pietà (low-interest pawn banks designed to help the poor) first at various places in the Marche and later in Vicenza, where he died. A cult sprang up at his gravesite, hymns were composed for his commemoration, and a canonization process was initiated.
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Joseph of Nazareth (1st century) The foster-father of Jesus. Almost everything known about Joseph comes from the gospels of Luke and Matthew. Legend makes Joseph an old man at the time of his marriage to the Virgin Mary, chosen miraculously in a contest for her - his staff burst into flower. His cult is said to have been established in Eastern Christianity in late antiquity. It certainly existed in the West in the 8th century, when it begins to appear in local martyrologies, e.g. that of Tallaght (ca. 790) and he is mentioned in a martyrologium of Reichenau from 850, some churches began to celebrate his feast in the 11th century, but the cult really "took off" only in the late Middle Ages. The first Western record of a church dedicated to Joseph comes from Bologna in 1129. That his sanctity was then not universally recognized is apparent from a capital (1125-1130) in the nave of Basilique Saint-Andoche at Saulieu (Côte d'Or), where he appears without a halo though in the same composition the BVM and the Christ Child have theirs. Joseph has often been depicted as elderly. His first Office comes from Liège in the thirteenth century. His feast on this day was adopted by some orders in the fourteenth century; it entered the Roman Calendar in the later fifteenth century under Sixtus IV.
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Mark of Montegallo (d. 1496) Mark was born at Mons Sanctae Mariae in Gallo, today's Montegallo in the Marche. He studied at Perugia and at Bologna, where he obtained degrees in law and medicine. In about 1448 he began a medical practice at Ascoli Piceno and in 1451 he married. A year later the pair separated, with the wife (whose name is said to have been Chiara) becoming a Poor Clare and Mark becoming an Observant Franciscan. He became a well-known preacher and promoter of Monti di Pietà (low-interest pawn banks designed to help the poor) first at various places in the Marche and later in Vicenza, where he died. A cult sprang up at his gravesite, hymns were composed for his commemoration, and a canonization process was initiated.
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Joseph of Nazareth (1st century) The foster-father of Jesus. Almost everything known about Joseph comes from the gospels of Luke and Matthew. Legend makes Joseph an old man at the time of his marriage to the Virgin Mary, chosen miraculously in a contest for her - his staff burst into flower. His cult is said to have been established in Eastern Christianity in late antiquity. It certainly existed in the West in the 8th century, when it begins to appear in local martyrologies, e.g. that of Tallaght (ca. 790) and he is mentioned in a martyrologium of Reichenau from 850, some churches began to celebrate his feast in the 11th century, but the cult really "took off" only in the late Middle Ages. The first Western record of a church dedicated to Joseph comes from Bologna in 1129. That his sanctity was then not universally recognized is apparent from a capital (1125-1130) in the nave of Basilique Saint-Andoche at Saulieu (Côte d'Or), where he appears without a halo though in the same composition the BVM and the Christ Child have theirs. Joseph has often been depicted as elderly. His first Office comes from Liège in the thirteenth century. His feast on this day was adopted by some orders in the fourteenth century; it entered the Roman Calendar in the later fifteenth century under Sixtus IV.
