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Remains of 2 Iraqi martyr priests found in chapel in Nineveh Plain

May 12, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Yusuf Jabo Sakarya and Father Behnam Hanam Mikho Khozymi, slain by Turkish soldiers in 1915, were among the victims of the Sayfo, or Assyrian genocide.

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Mon28 September
Ordinary Time

Monday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Wenceslaus, Martyr; Opt Mem of St. Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs

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Today the Church celebrates two optional memorials of martyrs: —St. Wenceslaus (907-929) was Duke of Bohemia, who after many trials in governing and evangelizing his people, suffered martyrdom at the hands of his brother in the year 929. —St. Lawrence Ruiz and his companions…

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