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Today, 28 December, is the feast of ... * The Holy Innocents - much debate has taken place on the probable number of babies slaughtered by order of Herod, after the birth of Jesus; estimates have ranged from c. 6 to c. 144,000! - this feast was known in England as Childermas * Theodore the Sanctified, abbot (368) - a disciple and successor of St Pachomius, one of his miracles involved one of the earliest recorded uses of blessed water as a sacramental for healing * Antony of Lerins (c. 520) - a native of Lower Pannonia, he became a monk in the area of Lake Como, where his fame caused him to flee across the Alps to Lerins ---------------------- George Ferzoco University of Leicester