Tuesday, October 08, 2002

9 October

. . . .is the feast of St. John Leonardi in both the traditional and the reformed calendars. St. John is a relatively new saint, being canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1941 at the height of the second world war. He founded the Clerks Regular of the Mother of God. This congregation still existed at the time of the publication of the old Catholic Encyclopaedia but I cannot tell if it still does.

This is also the feast of St. Dionysius - or Denys – of Paris, the patron of that city. It appears he was confused with Dionysius the Areopagite, who was in turn confused with an unknown writer referred to as Pseudo-Dionysius resulting in a hagiography that is a bit of a muddle.

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