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Herewith a link to an earlier (2011) 'Feasts and saints of the day' for 4. August (including St. Aristarchus; Sts. Crescentio and Justin of Rome; St. Hyacinth of Rome, martyr of the Via Labicana; St. Eleutherius of the Tarsia; St. Ia; St. Onuphrius of the Chaos; St. Rainerius of Cagli and of Split; Bl. Cecilia the Roman; Bl. William Horne):
http://tinyurl.com/cctod8f
Further to Crescentio and Justin of Rome:
The Stadtpfarrkirche St. Jakob in Friedberg (Lkr. Aichach-Friedberg) in Bayern has putative relics of Justin thought probably to have come from Freising:
http://www.sankt-jakob-friedberg.de/magazin/artikel.php?artikel=724
In that earlier post's notice of these saints, the link to the illustrated, German-language page on the Justinuskirche in Frankfurt-Höchst no longer functions. Use this instead:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinuskirche_%28H%C3%B6chst%29
Today (4. August) is also the feast day of:
Euphronius of Tours (d. 573). Most of what we know of this bishop of Tours comes from the _Historia Francorum_ of his successor in that office, St. Gregory of Tours. According to the latter, Euphronius was a younger relative (the term Gregory uses is _nepos_) of St. Gregory of Langres; consequently, he will have been a relative of Gregory of Tours' mother. He was, says Gregory, a person of exceptional sanctity and had been trained for the church since childhood. Euphronius became bishop of Tours in 555. Under Charibert I he successfully defended Tours' tax-exempt status; under Sigebert I he was tasked with bringing to Poitiers, at that time without a bishop, the relic of the Holy Cross, relics of saints, and preciously bound gospels that the emperor in Constantinople had sent to St. Radegund at her request. After a fire had devastated Tours he rebuilt two of its churches; later, after it had been burned in another fire, he re-roofed the basilica of St. Martin with tin paid for by Chlotar I. Euphronius built a church of St. Vincent in Tours and other churches in outlying communities. When he died he was buried in the basilica of St. Martin.
Best,
John Dillon
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