Portal:Saints/Did you know/November 2007

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  • ... that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
  • ...that Abraham of Farshut founded a new Monophysite monastery at Farshut after the monks of his old monastery at Pbow almost all accepted the decision of the Council of Chalcedon?
  • ... that Justus of Beauvais, a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
  • ...that after Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare both resigned from the same bishopric, Saint Michael appeared to tell them to found a new church?
  • ... that according to legend, Saint Juthwara was beheaded by her stepbrother, Bana, because he believed her to be pregnant?
  • ...that when John Horden sent his Cree language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?