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At 11:12 AM 11/8/2000 +0000, you wrote: >Today, 8 November, is the feast of ... > >* The Four Crowned Ones, martyrs (306?) >- the original legend tells of five martyrs from Pannonia, but the >better known one narrates the martyrdom of four Romans >- one legend says the four were stone-masons; they have been adopted as >patrons of such craftsmen (including English Freemasons, whose journal >is entitled *Ars Quatuor Coronatorum*) >- church where they are buried is one of the titular churches of the >cardinal-priests of Rome If you are in Rome & interested in old churches, this one is on my short list of those worth a detour. The chapel of St. Sylvester outside the entrance has a cycle of paintings illustration that pope's legend, including the Donation of constantine & you can secure admission to a very elegant cloister. Tom Izbicki %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%