Today, 5 August, is the feast of ...
* dedication of basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore (?)
- this Roman basilica is also known as Sancta Maria ad Nives, from
a tradition that Mary chose this place for a church dedicated to her by a
miraculous fall of snow upon this spot in summer
* Addai and Mari, bishops (c. 180)
- these wre Mesopotamians present at Pentecost with Peter and the
other apostles; evangelists of the lands around the Tigris and Euphrates
* Afra, martyr (304)
- formerly a prostitute, converted to Christianity; burned at the
stake in Augsburg (although she had been converted by st Narcissus, bishop
of Gerona in Spain)
* Nonna, matron (374)
- wife of saint Gregory Nazianzen the Elder; mother of saints
Gregory Nazianzen the Divine, Gorgonia, and Caesarius
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George Ferzoco
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