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Daybreak for October 9, 2026

Daybreak

* Friday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time * Optional Memorial of St. Denis and Companions; Denis was the first bishop of Paris, in about 275 A.D.; St. Gregory of Tours reports that Pope Fabian sent St. Denis and his companions, the priest Rusticus and the deacon Eleutherius, to present day Paris to re-establish the Church of Gaul; they men built a church on an island in the Seine and converted many pagans; their success incited the governor Sisinnius, who had the men captured and killed; a shrine and later, a great basilica were built over their graves * Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/9/26 * Gospel: Luke 11:15-26