le 27 octobre AD 2005/AM 7514

Today is the Vigil of Ss Simon and Jude, App. Their biography will be posted on their Feast Day.

Mediæval Saints from Ted Hewitt's Group(Catching up!):

le 25 octobre, Ss Crispin and Crispinian:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Medieval_Saints/message/1243

le 26 octobre, St Cedd:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Medieval_Saints/message/1244

le 27 octobre, St Frumentius, Bp.:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Medieval_Saints/message/1245

Today's Martyrolgy:

http://www.breviary.net/martyrology/mart10/mart1027.htm

Tomorrow's Martyrology, for those who recite Prime:

http://www.breviary.net/martyrology/mart10/mart1028.htm

On this day:

AD 97, To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany. And thus begins the union of Greece and Rome with the «barbarians» that leads to the glories of European Greco-Roman Catholic civilisation!

AD 1553, Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burned for heresy in Switzerland. While I have no problem with burning heretics since it may save their souls and will definitely save the souls of those they might lead astray, I would point out that this was an unusual case in that whilst Servetus was condemned by the Holy Office of The Inquistion, he was burned by Swiss heretics. From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus