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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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 e-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%