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Today, 27 December, is the feast of ... * John the Divine (c. 100) - of the disciples, perhaps the best off financially (cf. Mark 1,20; John 19,27) - with Peter, the first to receive from Mary Magdalene the news of the Resurrection * Maximus, confessor (281) - bishop of Alexandria * Theodore and Theophanes, confessors (ninth century) - in Constantinople, these brothers were tortured and had twelve lines of verses cut into their skins for their opposition to iconoclasm - Theodore soon afterward died, but Theophanes eventually became bishop of Nicaea and, ironically (given his torture), a noted poet ---------------------------- George Ferzoco