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Sunday, January 21, 2024

St. Anthony the Great - feast day Jan. 17 annually

also known as Anthony of the Desert / Anthony, abbot / founder of Western

monasticism

in Naples, Italy -- horses are galloped through fire in his honor

to ensure their good health in the year upcoming

in Mexico -- people bring their chihuahuas to be blessed by the priest

to ensure his intervention as patron saint of domestic animals

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