Today, 22 November, is the feast of ...
* Philemon and Apphia, martyrs (first century)
- apostle Paul addresses one of his epistles to Philemon;
in it is mentioned 'our dearest sister' Apphia; according
to legends, they were captured by a pagan governor,
scourged, then buried in a pit up to the waist, when they
were stoned to death
* Cecilia, virgin and martyr (?)
- of patrician birth, she converted her betrothed husband
and his brother to Christianity; martyred by being
suffocated with the steam of a hot bath in her own mansion
(later converted into a church); perhaps martyred during
reign of Septimus Severus (193-222); named in the canon of
the Mass; at a translation of her remains in 1599, her body
was seen to be complete and incorrupt (although in an
earlier translation, her head had been enshrined
separately); patron of music and musicians
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George Ferzoco
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