Today, 24 December, is the feast of ...
* Forty Virgins, martyrs at Antioch (250)
* Gregory of Spoleto, martyr (303)
- among his many tortures, he was put in an iron pot over a fire, but an
earthquake upset the pot before Gregory was quite cooked; typically, his
torturers got fed up at a certain point, and cut off his head
* Euthymius, martyr at Nicomedia (304)
* Delphinus, confessor (404)
- bishop of Bordeaux, who baptized and taught St Paulinus of Nola
* Tarsilla, virgin (sixth century)
- aunt of St Gregory the Great; after her death, her knees were found to
be a
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