Today, 29 August, is the feast of ...
* Beheading of John the Baptist (c. 30)
- the martyrology of Jerome twins this feast with that of Eliseus,
following the belief that both men were buried at Sebaste (near Jerusalem)
* Sabina, martyr (date unknown)
- according to the sixth century passio, she was a widow who was
converted to Christianity by her Syrian servant Serapia
* Medericus or Merry, abbot (c. 700)
- twice left the monastery to live as a hermit
* Richard Herst, martyr (1628)
- helped the nervous hangman fix the rope
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George Ferzoco
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