Décimo Kaléndas Decémbris Luna vicesima quinta Anno Domini 2019
November 22nd 2019, the 25th day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Rome, the holy
Virgin and martyr Cecily. She brought her husband Valerian and his
brother Tiburtius to believe in Christ, and nerved them to suffer
martyrdom. After their martyrdom, Almachius, Prefect of the city under
the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, caused her to be
arrested, and, after she had overcome fire, gloriously to finish her
sufferings with the sword.
At Colossae, in
Phrygia, the holy martyrs Philemon and Apphia, the disciples of the holy
Apostle Paul, (unto whom he addressed an Epistle.) During the reign of
the Emperor Nero, the Gentiles broke into the Church upon the feast day
of Diana. The rest of the faithful escaped, but these were taken, and by
command of the President Artocles they were flogged, buried up to the
middle, and stoned to death.
Likewise, at Rome, the
holy martyr Maurus, who came from Africa to visit the graves of the
Apostles, and suffered under the Emperor Numerian, and the Prefect of
the city, Celerinus.
At Antioch, in Pisidia, in the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian, the holy martyrs Mark and Stephen.
At Autun, (in the sixth century,) the holy Confessor Pragmatius, Bishop (of that see.)
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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