Quarto Idus Octóbris Luna quarta decima Anno Domini 2019
On the morrow we keep the feast of the holy Confessor Wilfred, Bishop of York.
October 12th 2019, the 14th day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Rome, the holy martyrs Evagrius, Priscian, and their Companions.
At Ravenna, on the Laurentine Way, (in the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian,) the holy martyr Edistius.
In Lycia, under the same Emperor Diocletian, the holy martyr Domnina.
In Africa are
commemorated four thousand nine hundred and sixty-six holy martyrs and
Confessors in the Vandal persecution under the Arian King Hunneric. Some
of these were Bishops of the Churches of God, and some of them Priests
and Deacons, but with them were joined multitudes of the other faithful.
For defending the Catholic truth they were driven into exile in the
terrible desert many of them were cruelly taken by the Moors, goaded to
run at the point of the spear, and beaten with stones others had their
feet tied together, and were dragged like corpses through hard and sharp
places, until all their limbs were mangled and then were tortured to
death in divers ways. Pre-eminent among them were the Bishops Felix and
Cyprian.
At Celeia, in Pannonia, (in the fourth century,) holy Maximilian, Bishop (of Lorch.)
At Milan, (in the third
century,) the holy Bishop Monas. During the discussion as to the
choosing of a Bishop there, a light from heaven shone upon him, and
through that wondrous sign he was made Bishop of that church.
At Verona, holy Salvin, Bishop.
In Syria, the holy Priest and Confessor Eustace.
At Ascoli, in the March
of Ancona, (in the year 1604,) the holy Confessor Seraphim, of the
Order of Friars Minor Capuchins, who was marked by holiness of life and
by lowliness, and whose name the Supreme Pontiff Clement XIII enrolled
with those of the Saints.
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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