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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: 304 deaths, 304 establishments, Agnes of Rome, Pope Marcellinus, Philomena, Han Zhao, Saint Lucy, Saint Alban, Cucuphas, Marcellinus and Peter, Quiricus and Julietta, Margaret the Virgin, Pancras of Rome, Saint Florian, Vincent of Saragossa, Eulalia of Merida, Leocadia, Gorgonius, Juliana of Nicomedia, Severus of Barcelona, Julian and Basilissa, Fidelis of Como, Cyprian and Justina, Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus, Martyrs of Abitina, Sima Ai, Saints Vitalis and Agricola, Typasius, Saint Afra, Acisclus, Theodora and Didymus, Justina of Padua, Domninus of Fidenza, Amphibalus, Sabinus of Spoleto, Charitina of Amisus, Gereon, Saint Duje, Agape, Chionia, and Irene, Ansanus, Dalmatius of Pavia, Sophia of Rome, Cantius, Cantianius, and Cantianella, Julius and Aaron, Crispina, Victoria of Albitina, List of state leaders in 304, Justus and Pastor, Euplius, Emerentiana, Febronia of Nisibis, Abundius and Abundantius, Saint Zoilus, Anysia of Salonika, Gregory of Spoleto, John and Marcianus, Proculus of Bologna, Sergius of Cappadocia, Orentius, Bunseo of Baekje, Donatus, Romulus, Secundian, and 86 Companions, Felix of Girona, Irenaeus of Sirmium, Saint Emmanuel. Excerpt: Saint Philomena is venerated as a virgin martyr saint of the Catholic Church, said to have been a young Greek princess martyred in the 4th century. Her veneration began in the early 19th century after the archaeological discovery in the Catacombs of Priscilla of the bones of a young woman, which were interpreted as those of a martyr. Nothing else was known about her, but an inscription found at the tomb was taken to indicate that her name was (in the Latin of the inscription) Filumena; corresponding to the English name Philomena. The remains were removed to Mugnano del Cardinale in 1805 and became the focus of widespread devotion, with several miracles credite...
