Today, 6 August, is the feast of ...
* the Transfiguration
- although celebrated liturgically in the East since well before
the year 1000, was not a universal feast in the West until pope Callistus
III required its observance following the victory over the Turks in 1456
* Sixtus II, pope; with Felicissimus, Agapitus and other companions,
martyrs (258)
- killed during Valerian persecution
* Justus and Pastor, martyrs (304)
- patrons of Alcala' and Madrid, these were schoolboys
* Hormisdas, pope (523)
- dealt with the Acacian schism; his son, saint Silverius, also
became pope
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George Ferzoco
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