Today is the feast day of Peter of Verona, better known in some circles as Peter Martyr (not to be confused with Peter Martyr Vermigli, a sixteenth-century Italian Calvinist). His principal distinguishing characteristic is that he was assassinated by the Catharist heretics whom he persistently confuted. Not just “assassinated,” but his skull cleft in two; hence his somewhat startling iconographic depiction as a Dominican with a blade of some sort through his head (looking like a theological Steve Martin epigone). That’s him on the left.
I have a particular affection for Peter Martyr (not Vermigli), so today comes as a treat among some fairly unpleasant circumstances at work and at church. Now, I have to take my evening Naproxen.
Posted by AKMA at June 4, 2003 10:29 PM | TrackBack