[37] This tonsure consisted in shaving the whole head.


[January 10.]

S. Nicanor, M., a.d. 76.
SS. Thecla, V., and Justina, Confessors in Sicily, 3rd cent.
S. Marcian, P. C., at Constantinople, circ. a.d. 476.
S. Domitian, B. C., in Armenia, circ. a.d. 600.
S. Agatho, Pope of Rome, a.d. 682.
S. Sethrida, V., Abbess of Brie, in France, 7th cent.
S. William, Ab. and Abp. of Bourges, a.d. 1209.
S. Gonsalvo, P. C., Portugal, a.d. 1259.
B. Christiana, or Oringa, V., in Etruria, a.d. 1310.

S. NICANOR, M.

(a.d. 76.)

[Roman Martyrology. Commemorated by the Greeks on July 28th and December 28th.]