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> > Today, 28 August, is the feast of ... > > * Hermes, martyr (second century?) > - martyred in Rome, with widely diffused cult throughout early > medieval Europe (and even today in Renaix, Flanders) Is this the HermAs of "Shepherd of Hermas" fame? Or perhaps the "Hermas" mentioned by Paul in Romans 16.14. Or maybe the "Hermes" of the same passage? Or some conflation of two of these? (I'm wondering if the survival of the [originally Greek] Shepherd of Hermas in two different Latin translations might somehow be connected to the martyr cult? Editions of ancient literature often seem to overlook or ignore the question of who cared to preserve it, and in what connections.) Bob Kraft, UPenn %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%