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Today, 15 August, is the feast of ... * the Assumption of Mary - in 1950, pope Pius XII confirmed the very long tradition of belief among Roman Catholics that at the end of her life, Mary's body and soul were assumed into Heaven - is there a similar feast in the East, for the Dormition? * Tarsicius, martyr (third century) - known as 'the boy-martyr of the Holy Eucharist', he was an acolyte who was killed by non-Christian Romans on the Appian Way while he was transporting some consecrated hosts * Arnulf or Arnoul, bishop of Soissons (1087) - after time in monastery of st Medard, he became bishop; died in Aldenburg, where he was for some time buried in the churchyard (until at a council at Beauvais in 1120, when the then bishop of Soissons demanded that the corpse be moved into the church) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * George Ferzoco %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%