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1. Saint Eustace

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   Saint Eustace (also known as Placidus before conversion) is a highly venerated, though largely apocryphal, early Christian martyr. His traditional feast day is observed on September 20th in the Latin Church and October 2/3 in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The core narrative of his life synthesizes elements of a classical Roman military career with a profound, almost immediate, supernatural conversion experience, often involving cervine theophany.
   The historicity of Eustace is quest…