{"ok":true,"date":"2028-10-25","dateKey":"10-25","liturgicalDay":"Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs","rank":"Simple","color":"red","quoteOfTheDay":{"text":"But Mary kept all these words, conferring them in her heart.","author":"Holy Scripture","source":"Luke 2:19, Original Douay-Rheims","treasuryHref":"/wisdom#pondering-with-our-lady","category":"Under Our Lady's Rule"},"season":"Time after Pentecost","novenas":[],"octaveContexts":[],"subject":"City of God in Exile: Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs - 2028-10-25","previewText":"Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs. Unity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity. Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside.","plainText":"CITY OF GOD IN EXILE\nSs. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs\n2028-10-25 - Time after Pentecost - Simple - red\nPLAIN-LANGUAGE GUIDE FOR TODAY\nMartyr: a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.\nChastity: the virtue that orders sexuality according to one's state of life and treats the body as belonging to God.\nSupernatural: arising from God's grace and directed toward eternal life, above what unaided human nature can produce.\nThe full Breviary lessons preserve an older English translation. Read the modern explanation first; it identifies the people, event, and doctrine before the historical wording appears.\nTODAY IN THE ROMAN YEAR\nOur Lord's answer concerning tribute does not divide life into a small sacred corner and a world independent of Him. Caesar may receive what belongs to lawful civil authority, but the soul, conscience, worship, and final end belong to God. Examine whether fear of men has claimed anything that obedience owes first to Christ. Ask Our Lady to make Jesus Christ known in you as He ought to be known: believed, adored, obeyed, and loved. Profess faith in Jesus Christ as true God and true man, and ask His Mother to lead you into complete obedience to Him.\n\n\"Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be.\"\nSt. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 13\n\nSt. Louis de Montfort's grief is not that Our Lady receives too little attention as though she sought a kingdom apart from Christ. He grieves because ignorance of Mary's place accompanies an impoverished knowledge of Jesus. The Son is treated as an idea, a moral teacher, or a source of comfort rather than as the Incarnate King who came through her and demands the whole man.\n\nAsk whether you know Christ only in the truths you prefer. To know Him as He ought to be known is to receive His divinity, His Cross, His Church, His commandments, His sacraments, His judgment, and His mercy without division. Let Mary uncover every partial or comfortable image of Jesus that must give way to the Catholic whole.\n\nPRACTICE\nEnd the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.\n\nQUOTE OF THE DAY\n\"But Mary kept all these words, conferring them in her heart.\"\nHoly Scripture, Luke 2:19, Original Douay-Rheims\n\nROMAN MARTYROLOGY - October 25\nAt Rome, the holy martyrs Chrysanthus, and his wife Daria. After many sufferings endured for Christ, under the prefect Celerinus, they were ordered by the emperor Numerian to be thrown into a sandpit on the Salarian road, where, being overwhelmed with earth and stones, they were buried alive. — Also, at Rome, the birthday of fortysix holy soldiers, who were baptized together by pope Denis, and soon after beheaded by order of the emperor Claudius. They were buried on the Salarian way, with one hundred and twenty-one other martyrs. Among them are named four soldiers of Christ — Theodosius, Lucius, Mark and Peter. — At Soissons, in France, in the persecution of Diocletian, the holy martyrs Crispin and Crispinian, noble Komans. Under the governor Rictiovarus, after horrible torments, they were put to the sword, and thus obtained the crown of martyrdom. Their bodies were afterwards conveyed to Rome, and entombed with due honors in the church of St. Lawrence, in Panisperna. — At Florence, St. Minias, a soldier, who fought valorously for the faith of Christ and was gloriously crowned with martyrdom during the reign of Decius. — At Torres, in Sardinia, the holy martyrs Protus, priest, and Januarius, deacon, who, being sent to that island by pope St. Caius, were put to death, under the governor Barbarus, in the reign of Diocletian. — At Constantinople, the martyrdom of the Saints Martyrius, sub-deacon, and Marcian, chanter, who were murdered by the heretics, under the emperor Qonstantius. — At Rome, St. Boniface, pope and confessor. — At Perigueux, in France, St. Fronto, who, being made bishop by the blessed apostle Peter, converted to Christ, with a priest named George, a large number of the people of that place, and, renowned for miracles, rested in peace. — At Brescia, the birthday of St. Gaudentius, bishop, distinguished by his learning and holiness. — At Javols, St. Hilary, bishop.\n\nHIGHLIGHTED SAINT\nSs. Chrysanthus and Daria\nHusband and wife buried alive for Christ.\nThe Martyrology honors Chrysanthus and his wife Daria at Rome, who after many sufferings under the prefect Celerinus were cast into a sandpit on the Salarian road and buried alive by order of Numerian.\nTheir feast teaches married fidelity under persecution. Christian spouses are not only companions in earthly duty, but fellow pilgrims called to confess Christ together.\nLet Chrysanthus and Daria teach households to face eternity together. Marriage becomes strongest when both souls belong first to Christ.\nFROM MATINS\nNoble by birth, more illustrious by faith, and united beneath one crown.\nMatins - One Nocturn - Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs\nRoman Breviary\n\"They received the same crown of martyrdom.\"\n- The Breviary remembers husband and wife as more illustrious by faith than by noble birth: Daria received faith and Baptism through her husband's labor, and together they brought an innumerable multitude at Rome to Christ.\n- Their apostolate was ordered within their distinct spheres, Daria among women and Chrysanthus among men, while their shared fidelity carried them through imprisonment, torture, attempted violation, and death.\n- God's interventions did not remove the final sacrifice. Loosed bonds, supernatural light, and the lion's protection preserved their confession and chastity until both received the same martyr's crown.\nLet Catholic marriage become a common road to sanctity and mission. Help one another receive and keep the Faith, guard chastity, bring other souls to Christ, and choose one crown in eternity above every peace purchased by compromise.\nFULL BREVIARY LESSONS\nThird Lesson - Husband and Wife beneath One Crown\nChrysanthus and Daria were husband and wife, born of noble family but still more illustrious in faith, which Daria had received together with Baptism through the work of her husband. At Rome they converted an innumerable multitude to Christ, she among the women and he among the men. Therefore the prefect Celerinus arrested them and handed them over to the tribune Claudius, who ordered Chrysanthus, bound, to be tortured by the soldiers; but all his bonds were loosed, and soon the fetters into which he had been cast were broken. They next enclosed him in an oxhide and placed him beneath the most burning sun. Then, with his hands and feet bound by a chain, they thrust him into a dark prison; there the chains were loosed and a most brilliant light illuminated the place. Daria, meanwhile, was forced into a brothel, but while she remained fixed in prayer she was divinely defended from violation by the protection of a lion. Finally both were led to a sandpit on the Salarian Way; the earth was dug out, they were covered with stones, and they received the same crown of martyrdom.\nTHE PILGRIM'S SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE\nUnity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity\nThe Church places this truth before you today: Catholic unity is unity in the faith, sacraments, worship, and lawful order of the Church. It is not agreement to ignore contradiction. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. The Church unites by truth and grace; she cannot found unity on silence about error.\nThe grace to be practiced is Spousal fidelity unto martyrdom, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Practice integrity of faith: receive Christ whole rather than selecting only what consoles or agrees with the age.\nThere is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing spousal fidelity unto martyrdom when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.\nDo the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Accept the cost of belonging to the real Christ when the world offers a gentler counterfeit. Obey Christ's commandments today, beginning where feeling or human respect has encouraged delay.\nThe Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.\nYour resolution before God: End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.\nCarry this word: The day must end beneath truth.\nTHE PILGRIM'S MIRROR\n\"As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.\"\nThomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21\nThe presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.\n\nDo not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.\nToday's Practice: Prepare a firm response for today's habitual temptation: an aspiration, departure from the occasion, and prompt return to duty.\nDAILY EXAMEN\nExamine where you sought Christ's comfort while resisting His kingship, and ask pardon through the Sorrowful Mother.\n- For what grace or mercy should I thank God today?\n- What sin, fault, neglected duty, or resistance to grace must I confess?\n- What definite amendment will I carry into tomorrow?\nPRAYER\nO Lord, bring this day to judgment before Thy mercy. Show me where I obeyed, where I resisted, where I loved, and where I must begin again.\nDAILY RULE FOR THE PILGRIM\nA brief rule to keep every day:\nBegin with morning prayer\nAdore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.\nKeep the Angelus\nPause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.\nSeek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament\nAttend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.\nReturn to Jesus and Mary\nUse frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.\nPray the Rosary\nKeep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.\nEnd with night prayer and examen\nGive thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.\nCONTINUE STUDY\nUnity Without Obedience and Indifferentism: https://cityofgodinexile.com/authority-and-revolt/unity-without-obedience-the-condemned-religion-of-indifferentism?entered=1\nOpen this day in the Sacred Calendar: https://cityofgodinexile.com/sacred-calendar?date=2028-10-25&entered=1\nOpen this day's Daily Pilgrimage: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch?date=2028-10-25&entered=1\nBrowse the Formation Index: https://cityofgodinexile.com/daily-dispatch/formation?entered=1","html":"\n\n \n \n \n City of God in Exile: Ss. 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Plain-Language Guide for Today

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a Christian who was killed rather than deny Christ or abandon the Faith.
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the virtue that orders sexuality according to one's state of life and treats the body as belonging to God.
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arising from God's grace and directed toward eternal life, above what unaided human nature can produce.

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Our Lord's answer concerning tribute does not divide life into a small sacred corner and a world independent of Him. Caesar may receive what belongs to lawful civil authority, but the soul, conscience, worship, and final end belong to God. Examine whether fear of men has claimed anything that obedience owes first to Christ.

Ask Our Lady to make Jesus Christ known in you as He ought to be known: believed, adored, obeyed, and loved.

Profess faith in Jesus Christ as true God and true man, and ask His Mother to lead you into complete obedience to Him.

“Jesus Christ is not known as He ought to be.”

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort, True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, no. 13

St. Louis de Montfort's grief is not that Our Lady receives too little attention as though she sought a kingdom apart from Christ. He grieves because ignorance of Mary's place accompanies an impoverished knowledge of Jesus. The Son is treated as an idea, a moral teacher, or a source of comfort rather than as the Incarnate King who came through her and demands the whole man.

Ask whether you know Christ only in the truths you prefer. To know Him as He ought to be known is to receive His divinity, His Cross, His Church, His commandments, His sacraments, His judgment, and His mercy without division. Let Mary uncover every partial or comfortable image of Jesus that must give way to the Catholic whole.

End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.

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“But Mary kept all these words, conferring them in her heart.”
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Holy Scripture, Luke 2:19, Original Douay-Rheims

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Roman Martyrology - October 25

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At Rome, the holy martyrs Chrysanthus, and his wife Daria. After many sufferings endured for Christ, under the prefect Celerinus, they were ordered by the emperor Numerian to be thrown into a sandpit on the Salarian road, where, being overwhelmed with earth and stones, they were buried alive. — Also, at Rome, the birthday of fortysix holy soldiers, who were baptized together by pope Denis, and soon after beheaded by order of the emperor Claudius. They were buried on the Salarian way, with one hundred and twenty-one other martyrs. Among them are named four soldiers of Christ — Theodosius, Lucius, Mark and Peter. — At Soissons, in France, in the persecution of Diocletian, the holy martyrs Crispin and Crispinian, noble Komans. Under the governor Rictiovarus, after horrible torments, they were put to the sword, and thus obtained the crown of martyrdom. Their bodies were afterwards conveyed to Rome, and entombed with due honors in the church of St. Lawrence, in Panisperna. — At Florence, St. Minias, a soldier, who fought valorously for the faith of Christ and was gloriously crowned with martyrdom during the reign of Decius. — At Torres, in Sardinia, the holy martyrs Protus, priest, and Januarius, deacon, who, being sent to that island by pope St. Caius, were put to death, under the governor Barbarus, in the reign of Diocletian. — At Constantinople, the martyrdom of the Saints Martyrius, sub-deacon, and Marcian, chanter, who were murdered by the heretics, under the emperor Qonstantius. — At Rome, St. Boniface, pope and confessor. — At Perigueux, in France, St. Fronto, who, being made bishop by the blessed apostle Peter, converted to Christ, with a priest named George, a large number of the people of that place, and, renowned for miracles, rested in peace. — At Brescia, the birthday of St. Gaudentius, bishop, distinguished by his learning and holiness. — At Javols, St. Hilary, bishop.

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The Martyrology honors Chrysanthus and his wife Daria at Rome, who after many sufferings under the prefect Celerinus were cast into a sandpit on the Salarian road and buried alive by order of Numerian.

Their feast teaches married fidelity under persecution. Christian spouses are not only companions in earthly duty, but fellow pilgrims called to confess Christ together.

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Let Chrysanthus and Daria teach households to face eternity together. Marriage becomes strongest when both souls belong first to Christ.

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Noble by birth, more illustrious by faith, and united beneath one crown.

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Roman Breviary, Proper lesson for Ss. Chrysanthus and Daria

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  • The Breviary remembers husband and wife as more illustrious by faith than by noble birth: Daria received faith and Baptism through her husband's labor, and together they brought an innumerable multitude at Rome to Christ.
  • Their apostolate was ordered within their distinct spheres, Daria among women and Chrysanthus among men, while their shared fidelity carried them through imprisonment, torture, attempted violation, and death.
  • God's interventions did not remove the final sacrifice. Loosed bonds, supernatural light, and the lion's protection preserved their confession and chastity until both received the same martyr's crown.
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Let Catholic marriage become a common road to sanctity and mission. Help one another receive and keep the Faith, guard chastity, bring other souls to Christ, and choose one crown in eternity above every peace purchased by compromise.

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Third Lesson - Husband and Wife beneath One Crown

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Chrysanthus and Daria were husband and wife, born of noble family but still more illustrious in faith, which Daria had received together with Baptism through the work of her husband. At Rome they converted an innumerable multitude to Christ, she among the women and he among the men. Therefore the prefect Celerinus arrested them and handed them over to the tribune Claudius, who ordered Chrysanthus, bound, to be tortured by the soldiers; but all his bonds were loosed, and soon the fetters into which he had been cast were broken. They next enclosed him in an oxhide and placed him beneath the most burning sun. Then, with his hands and feet bound by a chain, they thrust him into a dark prison; there the chains were loosed and a most brilliant light illuminated the place. Daria, meanwhile, was forced into a brothel, but while she remained fixed in prayer she was divinely defended from violation by the protection of a lion. Finally both were led to a sandpit on the Salarian Way; the earth was dug out, they were covered with stones, and they received the same crown of martyrdom.

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The Pilgrim's Spiritual Conference

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Unity Without Truth Is Not Catholic Unity

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The Church places this truth before you today: Catholic unity is unity in the faith, sacraments, worship, and lawful order of the Church. It is not agreement to ignore contradiction. Do not hurry past it as though doctrine belonged only to books and controversies. A revealed truth is also a light by which the soul must judge its loyalties, its fears, its habits, and the duties immediately before it. The Church unites by truth and grace; she cannot found unity on silence about error.

The grace to be practiced is Spousal fidelity unto martyrdom, drawn from today's saintly witness. Ask God for more than the natural appearance of this virtue. Temperament may make an action seem easy for a time, but supernatural virtue remains faithful because God is worthy of obedience, even when feeling offers no assistance and no one notices the cost. Practice integrity of faith: receive Christ whole rather than selecting only what consoles or agrees with the age.

There is also an enemy to recognize: Resist false ecumenism and every peace that asks doctrine to step aside. Do not study this danger only in other people. Look quietly for the door by which it seeks entrance into your own soul - perhaps through delay, curiosity, resentment, human respect, attachment to comfort, or the desire to control the outcome. Dying to self today means choosing spousal fidelity unto martyrdom when pride, comfort, fear, resentment, or human respect asks for control.

Do the faithful act and entrust its fruit to divine Providence, God's wise and loving governance of all things. Place effort and outcome into Our Lady's hands so that the whole offering may be presented to her Divine Son. Confidence in God is not passivity: obey, pray, work, and accept that visible success, consolation, or immediate relief may not be given. God remains faithful when the duty is hidden and the outcome uncertain. Therefore, perform the duty that belongs to you, use the lawful means God has provided, and then surrender the fruit. Accept the cost of belonging to the real Christ when the world offers a gentler counterfeit. Obey Christ's commandments today, beginning where feeling or human respect has encouraged delay.

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The Church's witness: this truth manifests the Church's mark of one; the witness placed beside it is Pope Pius XI.

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Your Resolution Before God

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End the day with thanksgiving, examination, contrition, and a firm purpose for tomorrow.

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The Pilgrim's Mirror

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How shall I imitate Christ today?

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“As long as we live in this world we may not be fully without temptation.”
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Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book I, chapter 13, p. 21

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The presence of temptation does not itself prove that you have consented or that prayer has failed. The Christian remains in warfare. Temptation humbles presumption, reveals the need for grace, and gives the will an occasion to prefer God in deed rather than merely in desire.

Do not converse needlessly with the temptation. Call upon Jesus and Mary, leave the occasion when you can, turn the imagination toward something lawful, and perform the nearest duty. If you fall, repent promptly; do not let wounded pride delay your return to mercy.

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Today's Practice

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Daily Examen

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Three questions before night prayer

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Examine where you sought Christ's comfort while resisting His kingship, and ask pardon through the Sorrowful Mother.

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O Lord, bring this day to judgment before Thy mercy. Show me where I obeyed, where I resisted, where I loved, and where I must begin again.

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Daily Rule for the Pilgrim

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A brief rule to keep every day:

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Begin with morning prayer

Adore the Blessed Trinity and offer the whole day to Jesus through Mary before other duties claim the mind.

Keep the Angelus

Pause morning, noon, and evening to remember the Incarnation.

Seek Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

Attend Holy Mass when duty permits; otherwise make a Spiritual Communion and renew desire for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Return to Jesus and Mary

Use frequent holy aspirations during work, waiting, suffering, and temptation.

Pray the Rosary

Keep the mysteries of Christ before the mind with Our Lady and learn to imitate what they contain.

End with night prayer and examen

Give thanks, confess faults, forgive injuries, make a practical amendment, and entrust the night to Our Lady.

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Persevere, pilgrim.

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The gates remain open to the faithful.

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