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Today, 31 October, is the feast of ... 

* Quintinus or Quentin, martyr (?)
- after many tortures inflicted at Amiens, he escaped with the help of an
angel; recaptured, he was beheaded, at which a dove was seen to fly
from his neck into the heavens

* Foillan, abbot (c. 655)
- founded monastery at Nivelles, and evangelized the people of Brabant
- killed, with companions, by outlaws in a forest; body not found for
more than two months

* Wolfgang, bishop of Regensburg (994)
- retained many monastic habits even after he became a bishop; educated the
young Henry, who became emperor and eventually a canonized saint; he
himself was canonized in 1052

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George Ferzoco
(Happy Hallowe'en!)


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