Solemnities, Feasts, Obligatory and Optional Memorials, and Traditional Dates of Commemoration
- Guntramnus
- Tutilo [1]
- Hesychius of Jerusalem, priest [3]
St. Guntramnus (d. ca. 592 A.D.) was the King of Burgundy and part of Aquitaine in 561 A.D. A record of his life was according to St. Gregory of Tours. St. Guntramnus endowed churches and monasteries and was a just ruler who supported three synods and worked to improve clerical discipline. Even if in his personal life he divorced his wife and had the doctor of another's wife killed, he spent the later years of his life doing penance for his misdeeds [2].
Saints in the Byzantine Calendar [March 28]
- Hilary, Monk and St. Stephen, wonderworker
- St. Jonas and his brother, St. Barachisius of Bethasa, Martyrs [2]
St. Hilary or St. Hilarion, spent many years as a hermit and then was ordained to the priesthood. He was then made hegumen of Pelekete monastery near the Dardanelles in the 8th century A.D. St. Hilary had the gifts of clairvoyance and was a wonderworker. St. Stephen or St. Stephen the Confessor, was the hegumen of Triglia monastery in Constantinople, who suffered under the iconoclast Emperor Leo the Armenian. Since he did not want to obey the Emperor's iconoclastic policies and adhered to the orthodoxy of the Christian faith, he was denounced and sent to prison in 815 A.D. St. Stephen was weakened and got sick because of imprisonment and died in prison as a result of his sufferings [4].
References: Books, Websites & AI Search Results
- [1] Pocket Catholic Dictionary, John A. Hardon
- [2] Dictionary of Saints, John J. Delaney
- [3] Lives of the Saints, Richard P. McBrien
- [4] Mar. 28 Our Venerable Father Hilary the Younger & The Holy Stephen the Wonder-worker, by Byzantinela.com
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