07 July 2018

8 July, The Roman Martyrology

ante diem viii Idus Julias

 July 8th anno Domini 2018 The 25th Day of the Moon

On the morrow we keep the feast of

Holy widow Isabel, Queen of Portugal, famous for her graces and miracles, [in the year 1336,] Whom Pope Urban VIII. enrolled among the Saints. 
In Lesser Asia, the holy Aquila and Priscilla his wife, from whom the holy Evangelist Luke writeth in the Acts of the Apostles [xviii. 2.]
At Porto, in Italy, fifty holy soldiers, all martyrs, who were brought to the faith by the testifying of holy Bonosa, baptized by the blessed Pope Felix, and slain in the persecution under the Emperor Aurelian. 
In Palestine, the holy martyr Procopius. In the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian he was brought from Bethshan, where he was reader, exorcist, and interpreter in the church, to Caesarea, where he was the first to be elected by the command of Fabian the judge. . 
At Constantinople, the holy Abrahamite monks, who resisted the Emperor Theophilus concerning the worship of holy images, and thus suffered martyrdom. 
At Wurzburg, in Germany, holy Killian, Bishop of that city. [An Irish monk, who traveled to Rome in the year 686, was sent by the Roman Pontiff Conon to preach the Gospel.] 
When he had turned many to Christ he was murdered, [in the year 689,] along with Colman Priest and Tatnan to Deacon. 
At Rome, the injured Pope Eugenius III. He had been Abbot of the monastery of SS. Vincent and Anastasius, near Rome, before he was made Supreme Pontiff. He ruled the universal Church with wonderful holiness and wisdom. [His name was Bernard Paganelli, and he was a native of Pisa, and Canon of that city. He then became a monk of Citeaux and disciple of St. Bernard before being elected Pope on February 15, 1145, and consecrated in the Benedictine Abbey of Farfa on the 16th of that month. He died at Tivoli on July 8, 1153.] 
At Treves, the holy Confessor Auspicius, Bishop [of that see, fifth century.] 
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins. 
R. Thanks be to God.

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