Today, 28 November, is the feast of ...
* Stephen the Younger, martyr (764)
- defending icons, he was persecuted by the emperor and
then lynched by a mob
* Simeon Metaphrastes (c. 1000)
- known as 'The Reteller', he was the greatest compiler of
saints' legends in the East; co-patron (with Ado of Vienne
and James of Voragine) of FEAST posts
* Giacomo della Marca (1476)
- a noted preacher, he continued the work of St Giovanni da
Capistrano in Austria and Hungary against the Hussites
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Carolyn Muessig
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