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Today, 4 September, is the feast of ...

* Marcellus, martyr (c. 178?)
	- he accepted an invitation to go to a party hosted by the Roman
governor, then got indignant when the governor started to rulfil religious
rites; surprisingly, Marcellus was killed -- by being buried up to his
waist in the earth on the banks of the Saone river, dying three days later
of exposure

* Marinus (fourth century?)
	- how many saints have a republic named after them? this one does

* Boniface I, pope (422)
	- elected at an advanced age, he was on very good terms with
Augustine; had a devotion to St Felicitas

* Ultan, bishop (657)
	- while feeding children with his right hand, he put Nordic
invaders to flight with his left hand; an early Irish writer said of him:
'Had it been the right hand that noble Ultan raised against them, no
foreigner would ever have come into the land of Erin'

* Ida of Herzfeld, widow (825)
	- to remind herself of her all-too-human destiny, she had a stone
coffin made for herself, which she would fill daily with food before
distributing it to the poor

* Rosalia, virgin (1160?)
	- had a popular cult in Sicily in the later Middle Ages; became
patron of Palermo in 1624, after being credited with clearing the city of
the plague

* Rose of Viterbo, virgin (1252?)
	- a visionary child saint, who preached in the streets at age 12;
canonized in 1457; her body is carried in rpocession through the streets
of Viterbo on this day

* Catherine of Racconigi, virgin (1547)
	- a Piedmontese Dominican nun; in the breviary lesson for her
feast, it is written: 'between Racconigi and [Catherine of] Siena there is
only the difference of canonization'

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George Ferzoco


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