Today, 30 December, is the feast of ...
* Sabinus and companions, martyrs (303?)
- Sabinus was a bishop, who along with some of his clergy
was executed in Spoleto by the governor of Etruria
* Anysia, martyr (304?)
- Anysia was an orphaned Christian girl of Thessalonica, who
used the money she had inherited to help the needy
* Anysius, bishop of Thessalonica (c. 410)
- pope Damasus made him patriarchal vicar in Illyricum; he
was later praised by popes and saints Innocent I and Leo
the Great
* Egwin, bishop of Worcester (717)
- founded the renowned abbey of Evesham, where he was
buried
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Dr Carolyn Muessig
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Bristol
Bristol BS8 1TB
UK
phone: +44(0)117-928-8168
fax: +44(0)117-929-7850
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