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| | Saints of August 29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | While he was about 13, Saint Merry took the Benedictine habit, probably at Saint Martin's in Autun, where 54 fervent monks lived, whose penitential and regular lives were an object of edification to the whole country. |
 | | Philippa, a disciple of Blessed Santuccia Terrebotti of Gubbio, founded the Benedictine convent of Santa Maria di Valverde at Arezzo, Italy, and became its first abbess (Benedictines). |
 | | Richard Herst was a farmer who was hanged on an unsubstantiated charge of murder because he was a recusant Catholic (Benedictines). |
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