Today, 16 December, is the feast of ...
* Valentine, Concordius, and others, martyrs at Ravenna (c. 303)
* African Virgins (482)
- in the persecution by Arian Vandal king, Huneric, some of these virgins
were hung up with weights attached to their feet, while others were burned
with heated plates of metal
* Ado, confessor (874)
- archbishop of Vienne, author of vitae of saints Desiderius and
Theuderis, and of a universal chronicle of the world (as well as a
martyrology)
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Carolyn Muessig
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