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From the Carolingian period through the general Roman Calendar of 1962 6. August was in Latin-rite churches the standard feast day of pope St. Sixtus II (and companions) as well as Sts. Agapitus and Felicissimus (d. 258). Since the reform of the general Roman Calendar promulgated in 1969 Latin-rite churches of the Roman obedience have instead celebrated these saints on 7. August, the day under which they appear in the early medieval (pseudo-)Hieronymian Martyrology.
Greek and other Orthodox churches have tended rather to include Sixtus (and sometimes others) in their commemoration of St. Lawrence on 10. August.
This year's "Feasts and saints of the day" will treat these saints tomorrow (7. August).
On Saturday, August 6, 2011, at 12:13 am, I wrote:
> 5) Gezzelinus of Luxembourg (Bl.; d. ca. 1138). According to a
> report by Achard of Clairvaux (BHL 1089) in Herbert of Torres' later
> twelfth-century _Liber miraculorum ac visionum_,
There seems to have been a confusion here. BHL 1089 is a version of the Passio of St. Benedicta of Laon. Herbert's three-book _Miracula_ of St. Bernard, the standard source for Achard's account, is BHL 1231.
Best again,
JD
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