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Showing posts with label martyrs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label martyrs. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

St Alban Roe OSB (Jan 31)

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Today a number of monasteries of the English Congregation of Benedictines celebrate the feast of St Alban Roe, one of the Forty Martyrs...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

January 26: St Polycarp

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St Polycarp (69 – 155 AD) was a 2nd century bishop of Smyrna, martyred for refusing to burn incense to the Emperor.  The  account of hi...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

January 24: St Timothy, Memorial

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St Timothy is most famous as the recipient of two of the letters of St Paul.  He accompanied St Paul on several of his journeys, and was...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

St Vincent of Saragossa (Jan 22); St Anastasius, monk of Persia

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From the martyrology for January 22: "At Valencia in Spain, while the wicked Dacian was governor, St. Vincent, deacon and martyr, w...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

January 21: St Agnes Class II/III

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St Agnes of Rome (c. 291 – c.304) is one of the saints commemorated in the canon of the Mass.  The saint A member of the Roman nobil...
Friday, January 20, 2017

January 20: SS Fabian (Pope) and Sebastian (Martyrs), Class III

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Pope Saint Fabian was a layman when elected pope, a position he held from January 10, 236 until his martyrdom on January 20, 250.  St S...
Thursday, January 5, 2017

Saints of the martyrology for January 5: St Telesphorus, Pope;St Apollinaris of Egypt; St Emiliana, virgin

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St Telesphorus St Telesphorus, who is commemorated today in the Extraordinary Form calendar, was pope between around 127 to 136 AD.  ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

St Lucy (December 13)

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Saint Lucy (283–304), was a Christian during the Diocletian persecution. According to her legend, her mother was cured dysentery by th...
Friday, November 25, 2016

November 25: St Catherine of Alexandria

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Saint Catherine of Alexandria (born c282), is a martyr who was a noted scholar. The daughter of a pagan governor of Alexandria, she co...
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

St Clement I, Pope and Martyr, Class III; St Felicity memorial (23 November)

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St Clement (c96 AD) was St Peter's successor as Bishop of Rome.  His only surviving writing, a  letter to the community at Corinth ...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

November 12: St Mennas, Memorial

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St Mennas, c285 – 309, was an Egyptian Christian who joined the army, but left after three years to become a hermit in response to Diocl...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

November 10: St Theodore, Memorial

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According to Butler's Lives of the Saints: "ST. THEODORE was born of a noble family in the East, and enrolled while still a ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

November 8: The Four Crowned Martyrs, Memorial

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The 'four crowned martyrs' - named in the Roman martyrology as Severus, Severian, Carpophorus and Victorinus - soldiers who were...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

October 25: SS Chrysanthus and Daria, Martyrs, Memorial

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According to the Wikipedia: "Saints Chrysanthus and Daria (3rd century - c. 283) are saints of the Early Christian period. Accord...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

September 27: SS Cosmas and Damian, Memorial

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According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Cosmas and Damian, familiar to us from the litany, were: "Early Christian physicians and...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

September 22: St Maurice and Companions

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Saint Maurice was the leader of the Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century,  massacred at Agaunum, about 287, by order of Maximian Herc...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

August 30: SS Felix and Audauctus, Memorial

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Saints Felix and Adauctus (d. 303 AD) were Christian martyrs who are believed to have lived during the reigns of Diocletian and Maximian...
Monday, August 29, 2016

Beheading of St John the Baptist (Aug 29)

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In one of those cutesy euphemisms, this feast has been renamed the 'Passion of John the Baptist' in the Ordinary Form. The ma...

August 29: The beheading of St. John the Baptist

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Today is one of the feast days of one of the most important saints in the calendar, St John the Baptist. In one of those cutesy euphemi...
Monday, August 22, 2016

August 22: St Timothy, Memorial

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Pope Benedict XVI gave a General Audience on St Timothy in 2006: "Timothy is a Greek name which means "one who honours...