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Generale Ecclesiae Rationarium -- General Statistics Office of the Church.

Mon7 September
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Monday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time; Labor Day (USA)

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Regina (Reine) (d. 286). She, after undergoing many cruel torments, was beheaded for the faith at Aliza. Aliza was formerly a large town called Alexia, famous for the siege which Caesar laid to it, now a small village in the diocese of Autun in Burgundy. Her…

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