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The sixteenth day of August.
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[edit] Events
[edit] Births
- 1794. Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
[edit] Deaths
[edit] Feast days
[edit] Roman Catholicism
- Saint Elias of Calabria
- Saint Hyacinth of Poland
- Saint Hiero (Jeron), martyr [Utrecht]
- Octave of saint Lawrence [common]
- Saint Liberatus, abbot, and companions, martyrs
- Saint Mamas, martyr [Metz, France]
- Victory of French king Philip IV the Fair at Mons-en-Pévèle [Paris]
- Saint Clare of the Cross
