Nono Kaléndas Iúlii Luna vicesima prima Anno Domini 2019
The morrow is the Eve of the holy Baptist John.
June 23rd 2019, the 21st day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
In England, the holy Queen and Virgin Etheldreda, who passed away to be with the Lord, illustrious for holiness and miracles whose body was found incorrupt eleven years after her death, [in the year 679.]
At Rome, the holy Priest John, who was beheaded, under the Emperor Julian the Apostate, in front of the image of the sun upon the old Salarian Way. His body was buried by the blessed Priest Concordius, hard by the martyrs' burial-place.
Likewise at Rome, under the Emperor Valerian, the holy Virgin and martyr Agrippina, whose body was taken to Sicily and is distinguished for many miracles.
At Sutri, in Tuscany, the holy Priest Felix, whose mouth the Prefect Turcius ordered to be pounded with a stone until he died.
At Nicomedia are commemorated very many holy martyrs who, in the time of Diocletian, wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth, and for Christ's Name's sake, underwent martyrdom with joy.
At Philadelphia, in Arabia, the holy martyr Zeno and Zenas his slave. When Zeno was bound Zenas kissed his chains, and besought him to be pleased to have him for a sharer in his torments, whereupon the soldiers took him, and he and his master received the same crown of martyrdom together, [in the year 304.]
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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