Today, 30 August, is the feast of ...
* Felix and Adauctus, martyrs (304?) - Felix, 'no less happy in his life
and virtue than in his name', was a Roman priest; while being led to
execution, he was seen by an onlooker, who demanded that he too be
killed... so they both got their heads chopped off; no one knew the name
of the second man, so he was referred to as 'Adauctus', 'the one added'
* Pammachius (410) - a friend of Jerome and Paulinus of Nola, collaborator
of Fabiola
* Rumon or Ruan (sixth century?) - a young woman, fearing that Rumon would
make her husband a monk, declared that the holy man was really a werewolf
who had eaten a child
* Fantinus, abbot (tenth century) - abbot of Greek monastery of St Mercury
in Calabria, he left to become a hermit just before Saracens destroyed the
monastery; he then left for the Peloponnesus, where his miracles and
virtues made him a celebrity
* Bronislava, virgin (1259) - a cousin of St Hyacinth, she was a
Norbertine nun who lived near Cracow; when her cousin died, she saw the
Virgin Mary receive him into Heaven
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Carolyn Muessig
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