Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 21, 1994 | Copyright information

TODAY is the feast day of Saints Bonosus and Maximian, martyrs in the 4th century in Antioch. Emperor Julian the Apostate had decreed that the cross should be struck off his army's standard. His uncle, Count Julian, carried out the decree but Bonosus and Maximian refused to hand over the standard. They were whipped and racked, but did not renounce their Christianity. Julian then had them both beheaded. Early biographers record that Count Julian was then stricken "with a disease as revolting a...

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