Today is the Feasts of Ss Gregory of Decapolis, Proclus of Constantinople, Nerses & His Companions, Dasius of Durostorum, Eustachius, Thespesius & Anatolius of Nicaea, Adventor, Agapius, Ampelus, Autbodus, Bassus and His Companions, Benignus, Bernward of Hildesheim, Edmund Rich, Edmund the Martyr, Eudo, Eval, Felix of Valois, Francis Xavier Can, Josaphata Michaelina Hordashevska, Leo of Nonantula, Maxentia of Beauvais, Octavius, Solutor, & Adventor, & Solutor.
AD 284, Diocletian is chosen as Roman Emperor. He would begin the Diocletianic Persecution of the Church.
AD 869, St Edmund Martyr is killed in battle by the pagan Vikings.
1022, St Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, dies.
1975, Francisco Franco dies, leading to Spain's descent into the cesspit of anti-Catholicism.
St Felix of Valois's Day, 2005. I discovered St Rose Philippine Duchesne Church (FSSP), now a Personal Parish, then just a "Latin Mass Community". The Pastor, a Frenchman, preached on St Felix's possible connection to the French Royal House. After Mass, I told him that on 14 July 1989, I had heard the Revolution praised from the pulpit. He replied, 'You'll get none of that here!"
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