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stitchwhichBasil the Younger (d. 952) Basil was a hermit who moved near Constantinople after being arrested and tortured as a suspected spy by the Moslems (he was miraculously vindicated). He was tossed into the sea but was returned to shore by dolphins. After his release, he became famous for his miracles and upright life. He made a specialty of denouncing aristocrats for their wicked ways, and suffered persecution. He lived to be 100. There is an extant biography by one of his disciples that tells especially of Basil's prophetic gifts.
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Peter Marginet (blessed) (d. 1435) The subject of an unconfirmed cult, Peter Marginet has an interesting story. He was a monk at the Cistercian house of Poblet near Tarragona (Spain), moving up to the office of cellarer. But he seems to have gotten tired of it, jumped the cloister wall, and became the head of a gang of bandits for a few years. But he then repented, returned to the monastery, and spent the rest of his life doing penance.
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Bathus (priest), Verca, and their children, martyrs (about A.D. 370) Bathus, a Gothic priest, his wife Verca, their two sons and two daughters, and some others were burned in the church by the Gothic Jungeric. Gaatha, a Gothic queen, collected their relics, and conveyed them into Roumania; but on her return she was stoned to death.
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Castulus (d. 3d cent?) Castulus is a martyr of the Via Labicana, entered for this date in the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology. According to the legendary Acta of St. Sebastian, he was a high official in the imperial palace who looked after the welfare of Christians and who converted many to the faith. The legend goes on to say that he sheltered Christians, arranged for secret Christian services at the palace, was denounced, tortured, and then placed in a pit and suffocated by having "sand” poured over him (probably pozzolana, the compacted volcanic ash quarried locally for use in cement). This also tells us that it was Castulus’ widow, Irene, who found St Sebastian still alive after Diocletian's archers had left him for dead and who nursed him back to health, thereby permitting S. to later confront D. with his divinely ordained recovery.
By the year 809 relics believed to be those of Castulus had reached the monastery at Moosburg in southern Bavaria (today's Moosburg an der Isar). Moosburg's present collegiate church of St. Castulus / Kastulus (begun 1171) was the monastery's church until the latter's closing in the early seventeenth century.
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Peter Marginet (blessed) (d. 1435) The subject of an unconfirmed cult, Peter Marginet has an interesting story. He was a monk at the Cistercian house of Poblet near Tarragona (Spain), moving up to the office of cellarer. But he seems to have gotten tired of it, jumped the cloister wall, and became the head of a gang of bandits for a few years. But he then repented, returned to the monastery, and spent the rest of his life doing penance.
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Bathus (priest), Verca, and their children, martyrs (about A.D. 370) Bathus, a Gothic priest, his wife Verca, their two sons and two daughters, and some others were burned in the church by the Gothic Jungeric. Gaatha, a Gothic queen, collected their relics, and conveyed them into Roumania; but on her return she was stoned to death.
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Castulus (d. 3d cent?) Castulus is a martyr of the Via Labicana, entered for this date in the (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology. According to the legendary Acta of St. Sebastian, he was a high official in the imperial palace who looked after the welfare of Christians and who converted many to the faith. The legend goes on to say that he sheltered Christians, arranged for secret Christian services at the palace, was denounced, tortured, and then placed in a pit and suffocated by having "sand” poured over him (probably pozzolana, the compacted volcanic ash quarried locally for use in cement). This also tells us that it was Castulus’ widow, Irene, who found St Sebastian still alive after Diocletian's archers had left him for dead and who nursed him back to health, thereby permitting S. to later confront D. with his divinely ordained recovery.
By the year 809 relics believed to be those of Castulus had reached the monastery at Moosburg in southern Bavaria (today's Moosburg an der Isar). Moosburg's present collegiate church of St. Castulus / Kastulus (begun 1171) was the monastery's church until the latter's closing in the early seventeenth century.
