> Today, 6 March, is the feast of ...
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> * Perpetua, Felicity and companions, martyrs (203): In the fourth century
> the acts of these martyrs were publicly read in the churches of Africa.
> They were so highly esteemed that Augustine of Hippo found it necessary to
> issue a protest against their being placed on a level with Scripture.
>
> We have their relics in our altar (Our Lady's, Acomb, York) and I
commemoraated them on Sunday. Oriens.
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