[Magdalen] Named for saints.

[Sibyl Smirl]

Well, if you looked around, you'd know of more.  You must be looking 
only at the ECUSA Kalendar.  Besides Peter and Paul, at the URL I gave 
are St Cassius of Narni, St Mary Salome, Bl Yakym Senkivsky, Sts. Salome 
and Judith, and St Cocha.  If you click on the names there, you get 
dates and brief bios.  In the Roman Martyrology, there is St Mary, 
mother of John, surnamed Mark; St Marcellus, martyr, who was beheaded 
for the faith of Christ together with the soldier Anastasius; St. 
Syrius, bishop; maybe St Gregory--it's a little difficult to tell from 
the text whether this is his feast day or what; St. Benedicta, Virgin. 
I'm sure if you check other sources, like the Orthodox ones, you'll find 
many more.  Those Orthodox churches often don't come even close to 
agreeing with each other on particular Saints or their days, much less 
with Rome.

On 10/29/15 2:29 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Peter and Paul are the only ones I know of for June 29.
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/29/15 12:14 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>
>>> I'd have to be Petra or Pauline. No thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Oh, there are probably about a dozen different saints your mother could
>> have chosen from.  There are way more than 365 Saints, so they're stacked
>> up on days.  Especially when you use a group of different churches that
>> have calendars, plus the Orthodox.  Sometimes days got moved around from
>> one church to another, sometimes calendar changes made variances (like from
>> Julian to Gregorian, then the more recent changes in different places),
>> sometimes the date of death just was not known, and different churches
>> randomly assigned different days.
>>
>> For just a sampling, try
>> http://www.catholic.org/saints/f_day/jun.php


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