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At Fermo in the Marches, Saint Vissia, virgin and martyr.

At Rome in the cemetery of Calepodius at the third mile of Via Aurelia, deposition of Saint Julius I, pope, who, during the Arian persecution, tenaciously guarded the Nicene faith, defended Athanasius from accusations by hosting him during his exile and convened the Council of Sardica.

At Verona, Saint Zeno, bishop, by whose labours and preaching the city was led to the baptism of Christ.

In Cappadocia, in present-day Türkiye, Saint Sabbas the Goth, martyr, who, during the persecutions unleashed against Christians by the king of the Goths Athanaric, three days after the celebration of Easter, having refused to eat the meat sacrificed to idols, after cruel torture was thrown into the river.

At Gap in Provence in France, Saint Constantin, bishop.

At Pavia, Saint Damiano, bishop, whose letter on the right faith regarding the will and action in Christ was read in the Third Council of Constantinople.

At Parius in the Hellespont, in present-day Türkiye, Saint Basil, bishop, who suffered beatings, prison and exile for the cult of sacred images.

In the territory of Ponthieu in France, Saint Erkembode, abbot of Saint-Omer and at the same time bishop of Thérouanne.

In the monastery of Cava de’ Tirreni in Campania, Saint Alferio, founder and first abbot, who, after having been advisor to Guaimario, Duke of Salerno, having become a disciple of Saint Odilo in Cluny, learned the discipline of monastic life in an excellent way.

In the monastery of Belém near Lisbon in Portugal, Blessed Lorenço, priest of the Order of Saint Jerome, to whom many penitents turned for his outstanding piety.

At the city of Los Andes in Chile, Saint Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes Fernández Solar, virgin, who, having become a novice in the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, consecrated, as she herself said, her life to God for the sinful world and died twenty year old affected by typhus.

Near San José in the Chilpancinga region in Mexico, Saint David Uribe Velasco, priest and martyr, who in a time of persecution against the Church suffered martyrdom for Christ the King.