Décimo nono Kaléndas Ianuárii Luna duodevicesima Anno Domini 2019
December 14th 2019, the 18th day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Alexandria, (in the
year 250,) the holy martyrs Heron, Arsenius, and Isidore, and a lad
Dioscorus. In the persecution under the Emperor Decius the judge caused
Heron, Arsenius, and Isidore to be lacerated with divers torments, and,
when he saw them to be all equally steadfast, to be burnt. Dioscorus was
heavily whipped, but God was pleased that, for the comfort of the
faithful, he should then be set at liberty.
At Antioch, the holy martyrs Drusus, Zosimus, and Theodore.
Upon the same day, (in
the year 284,) the holy martyrs Justus and Abundius. Under Olybrius the
President, in the persecution under the Emperor Numerian, they were cast
into the fire, and when they appeared thence unburnt, they were
beheaded.
At Reims, the holy
martyrs Nicasius, Bishop, (in the year 400,) of that see the Virgin
Eutropia, his sister, and their Companions, who were slain by the savage
enemies of the Church (in the year 407.)
In the island of Cyprus
the blessed Spiridion, Bishop (of Tremithos) he was one of those
Confessors whose right eyes were put out and their left thighs
hamstrung, and were condemned to penal servitude in the mines by the
Emperor Galerius Maximian. He was illustrious for the gift of prophecy,
and the fame of miracles, and at the Council of Nice, (held in 325,) he
confuted and converted to the faith a heathen philosopher who attacked
the Christian religion, (and died after the year 347.)
At Bergamo, the holy Confessor Viator, Bishop (of that see.)
At Pavia, holy Pompey, Bishop (of that see.)
At Naples, in Campania,
(in the year 596,) holy Agnello, Abbot (at Naples,) famous for the
grace of miracles, who, when the city had been beleaguered, had often
been seen with a flag marked with a cross, delivering it from the enemy.
At Ubeda, in Spain, the
holy Confessor John of the Cross (died in 1591) a companion of holy
Teresa in reforming the Carmelites, whose feast is kept upon the 24th
day of November.
At Milan, the holy Hermit Matronian.
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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