Nono Kaléndas Ianuárii Luna vicesima octava Anno Domini 2019
The morrow is the Eve of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ.
December 24th 2019, the 28th day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Antioch, forty holy
Virgins and martyrs, who there finished their testimony by divers
torments in the persecution under the Emperor Decius.
At Spoleto, the holy
Priest Gregory (of Spoleto), a martyr in the time of the Emperors
Diocletian and Maximian, he was beaten with knotted cudgels, laid upon a
grating over fire, imprisoned, his knees hammered with iron combs,
burning lamps set to his sides, and at last beheaded.
At Tripoli, the holy martyrs Lucian, Metrobius, Paul, Zenobius, Theotimus, and Drusus.
At Nicomedia, the holy
martyr Euthymius, who sent many before him to martyrdom, in the
persecution under the Emperor Diocletian, and then was himself pierced
through with the sword, and so followed them unto their crown.
At Bordeaux, holy
Delphinus, Bishop (of that see from 380-404, when he died,) who was a
burning and shining light of holiness in the time of the Emperor
Theodosius.
In Poland, (in the year
1473,) the holy Confessor John of Kenty, a secular Priest, famous for
his learning, his zeal for the spreading of the faith, his graces, and
his miracles, whose feast we have kept upon the 22nd day of October.
At Rome, (about the
year 550,) the holy Virgin Tharsilla, father's sister to holy Pope
Gregory, of whom he witnesseth that at the hour of her going forth she
saw Jesus coming unto her.
At Trier, the holy
Virgin Irmina, daughter to King Dagobert (II. She was Abbess of the
monastery of Horrein, and lived from about the year 672 to about the
year 715.)
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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