On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
In Cyprus, Blessed Nicanor, one of the seven first deacons who, admirable for his faith and virtue, was most gloriously crowned.
At Rome, St. Agatho, pope who, famous for holiness and learning, died a natural death.
At Milan, St. John, surnamed the Good, bishop and confessor.
In Thebais, the birthday of St. Paul, the first hermit, who, from the sixteenth year of his age until an hundred and thirteen, led a solitary life in the wilderness; whose soul St. Antony saw carried up to heaven by angels amidst the choirs of apostles and prophets, but his feast is kept on the fifteenth of this month.
At Constantinople, of St. Marcian, priest.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs, confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
