>>Today, 19 April, is the feast of ...
>>
>>Expeditus, martyr (no date): It is thought that this saint never
>>existed.
>>
>>Last year Bill East addded:
>>
>>There are several other non-existent saints whose name derives from
>>a linguistic misunderstanding. St Amphibalus - the word means a cloak;
>>and St Aldate - simply the Old Gate, near which, in Oxford, stands the
>>Church of St Aldate's.
And let us not forget St Op, patron saint of crossroads;
nor the holy St Igmata.
Bill.
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