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The Twenty-ninth Day of August

The beheading of St. John the Baptist, whom Herod ordered to be beheaded on the Feast of the Passover. But his memory is solemnly kept on this day, when his venerated head was found for the second time. It was afterwards taken to Rome, and is preserved in the church of St. Silvester in the Campus Martius, with the great devotion of the faithful. A totum duplex feast.

At Rome, on the Aventine, the birthday of St. Sabina, martyr, who was put to the sword under the Emperor Hadrian and obtained a crown of martyrdom. A memory.

At Veliniano on the confines of Apulia, the suffering of SS. Vitalis, Sator, and Repositus. They were sons of SS. Boniface and Thecla, and were condemned to capital punishment by the judge Valerian in the reign of the Emperor Maximian. Their festival, with that of the others of the twelve holy brethren, is observed on September 1.

At Rome, St. Candida, virgin and martyr, whose body Pope St. Paschal I transferred to the church of St. Praxedes.

At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Hypatius, a bishop of Asia, and Andrew, priest. At the time of Leo the Isaurian, both these men, because they venerated the holy images, had their beards smeared with pitch and then set on fire. The skin was peeled off their heads and their throats were cut.

At Antioch, the birthday of the holy martyrs Nicaeas and Paul.

At Metz in Gaul, St. Adelf, bishop and confessor.

At Paris, the death of St. Mederic, priest.

At Perugia (in Italy), St. Euthymius, a Roman. With his wife and his son Crescentius, he fled to Perugia from the persecution of Diocletian. Later, he died there a peaceful death.

In England, St. Sebbe, King (of the East Saxons)

At Sirmium, the birthday of St. Basilla, virgin.

In the country of Troyes, St. Sabina, virgin, glorious for her virtues and miracles.

The death of the venerable brother Angelus Dominic Ancarani, of Faenza, 71st master general of the Order.

V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.

R. Thanks be to God.

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