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Today, 28 August, is the feast of ... * Hermes, martyr (second century?) - martyred in Rome, with widely diffused cult throughout early medieval Europe (and even today in Renaix, Flanders) * Julian of Brioude, martyr (third century?) - also known as Julian of Auvergne, he was a soldier-martyr; Gregory of Tours relates miracles wrought by his intercession * Alexander, John III, and Paul IV, patriarchs of Constantinople (340, 577, 784) * Moses the Black (c. 405) - converted from being a thieving slave and brigand after hiding from the authorities by mixing with some desert hermits in Egypt * Augustine, bishop of Hippo, doctor (430) - moderately influential Father :-) * London Martyrs of 1588 - William Dean, William Gunter, Robert Morton, Hugh More, Thomas Holford, James Claxton, Thomas Felton, Richard Leigh, Edward Shelley, Richard Martin, Richard Flower, Margaret Ward, John Roche, William Hartley, John Hewett, Robert Sutton, William Way * Edmund Arrowsmith, martyr (1628) - a relic of his, known as 'the holy hand', is preserved in the church of St Oswald at Ashton-in-Makerfield * * * * * * * * * * * * George Ferzoco %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%