Idibus Iúnii Luna undecima Anno Domini 2019
June 13th 2019, the 11th day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Padua, the holy Confessor Anthony of Portugal, of the Order of Friars Minor, famous for his life, miracles, and preaching.
At Rome, upon the Ardeatine Way, the holy Virgin martyr Felicula. She would not marry Flaccus nor sacrifice to idols, and was therefore handed over to a certain judge who, forasmuch as she remained steadfast in confessing Christ, starved her in the dark, then had her racked until she died, and thereafter threw her body into a sewer. The holy Nicomedes buried her beside the same Way.
In Africa, the holy martyrs Fortunatus and Lucian.
At Byblos, in Palestine, the holy Virgin martyr Aquilina, aged twelve years. In the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian and the judge Valusian, she was buffeted and beaten for her confession of the faith, and stabbed with heated awls, and lastly smitten with the sword, and so hallowed maidenhood by martyrdom.
In the Abruzzi, the holy martyr Peregrine, Bishop [of Amiternum,] who for the Catholic faith's sake was drowned by the Lombards in the river Aterno.
At Cordova, the holy monk and priest Fandilas, who [in the year 853] suffered martyrdom for Christ's sake by being beheaded in the persecution by the Arabs.
In Cyprus, [in the fourth century,] holy Triphyllius, Bishop [of Nicosia.]
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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