Décimo Kaléndas Ianuárii Luna vicesima septima Anno Domini 2019
December 23rd 2019, the 27th day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Rome, the holy
Virgin and martyr Victoria (de Tivoli.) She was espoused to one
Eugenius, a heathen, and during the persecution under the Emperor Decius
she would neither marry Eugenius nor offer sacrifice unto idols, but
worked many miracles, whereby she gathered many virgins unto God, and
the executioner stabbed her to the heart with his sword at the request
of her espoused husband.
At Nicomedia, twenty
holy martyrs during the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian, after
they had been most grievously tormented.
There likewise, in the
same persecution, the holy martyrs Migdonius and Mardonius, of whom the
one was burnt and the other cast into a ditch, and so died. Then also
suffered the Deacon of holy Anthimus, Bishop of Nicomedia, who was
bringing a letter to the martyrs when he was taken by the Gentiles and
stoned to death, and so passed hence to be ever with the Lord.
In Crete, the holy
martyrs Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zeticus,
Cleomenes, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus, who suffered great
cruelties in the persecution under the Emperor Decius, and were
beheaded. (They are often called the Ten Martyrs of Crete.)
At Rome, blessed
Servulus, concerning whom holy Gregory writeth that from his childhood
even unto the end of his life he lay paralysed in a porch hard by the
church of St. Clement, and at the end he was called by songs of angels,
and passed away into the glory of Paradise, (in the year 570.) God doth
very often show miracles at his grave.
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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