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December 4, 2017
Today (4 December) is the Feast of St. Barbara.

October 4, 2017
On 4 October 1454 Piero della Francesca received his first contract for the commission of an altarpiece for the Augustinian friars of Borgo Sansepolcro to be placed in their church of Sant’Agostino.

April 23, 2017
On 23 April 303 Geṓrgios, the young Roman Legion officer was executed.

February 5, 2017
The feast day of St. Agatha (231-251) is celebrated on 5 February.

January 22, 2017
The joint feast day of Saint Vincent of Saragossa, executed by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 304, and Saint Anastasius of Persia, a Christian convert killed in 628, is celebrated on 22 January.

January 20, 2017
Today, 21 January, is the feast day of St. Agnes, celebrated on the anniversary of her martyrdom in 304.

October 28, 2016
October 28 is the feast day of Saints Simon and Jude (also known as Thaddeus).

October 23, 2016
Today is the feast day of San Giovanni da Capestrano (Kapisztrán János in Hungarian).

October 14, 2016
Painter Gentile da Fabriano passed away before 14 October 1427, when a document refers to him as dead.

October 2, 2016
Saint Charles Borromeo was born 2 October 1538 in Milan, the city where he became Archbishop in 1564 and died in 1584.