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August 29:1The Roman MartyrologyOn the morrow we commemorate the beheading of the holy Baptist John, whom Herod commanded to be beheaded about the time of the feast of the Passover, [in the 31st year of our Lord] but the memorial of his death is solemnly made on the day when his worshipful head was found for the second time, which head hath since been brought to Rome, and is kept with deep reverence of the people in the Church of St. Sylvester, at the Campus Martius, [hence commonly called the Church of St. Sylvester in Capite, that is to say, St. Sylvester with the Head of the Fore-runner.]October 7:2The Roman MartyrologyAt Rome, upon the Ardeatine Way, (in the year 336,) the holy Confessor, Pope Mark, (who succeeded Sylvester I, and reigned 8 months and 20 days.)