Today, 30 August, is the feast of ...
* Felix and Adauctus, martyrs (304?)
- Felix, 'no less happy in his life and virtue than in his name',
was a Roman priest; while being led to execution, he was seen by an
onlooker, who demanded that he too be killed... so they both got their
heads chopped off; no one knew the name of the second man, so he was
referred to as 'Adauctus', 'the one added'
* Pammachius (410)
- a friend of Jerome and Paulinus of Nola, collaborator of Fabiola
* Rumon or Ruan (sixth century?)
- a young woman, fearing that Rumon would make her husband a monk,
declared that the holy man was really a werewolf who had eaten a child
* Fantinus, abbot (tenth century)
- abbot of Greek monastery of St Mercury in Calabria, he left to
become a hermit just before Saracens destroyed the monastery; he then left
for the Peloponnesus, where his miracles and virtues made him a celebrity
* Bronislava, virgin (1259)
- a cousin of St Hyacinth, she was a Norbertine nun who lived near
Cracow; when her cousin died, she saw the Virgin Mary receive him into
Heaven
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George Ferzoco
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