Quinto Kaléndas Ianuárii Luna secunda Anno Domini 2019
December 28th 2019, the 2nd day of the Moon, were born into the better life:
At Bethlehem of Judah, the holy innocent little children who were slain for Christ's sake by Herod the King.
At Ancyra, in Galatia, the holy martyrs Eutychius the priest and Domitian the deacon.
In Africa, the holy martyrs Castor, Victor, and Rogatian.
At Nicomedia, the holy
martyrs, Indes the eunuch, the virgins Domna, Agape, and Theophila, and
their companions, who after long contendings by divers kinds of death
gained the crown of martyrdom in the persecution under the Emperor
Diocletian.
At Neo-Caesarea, in
Pontus, in the persecution under the Emperor Decius, the holy martyr
Troadius as he was dying the ghost of holy Gregory the wonder-worker
appeared to him and strengthened him to undergo martyrdom.
At Arabissa, in the lower Armenia, the holy martyr Cassarius, who suffered under the Emperor Galerius Maximian.
At Lyon, in Gaul, the
holy confessor Francis de Sales (1 567-1622), Bishop (and Prince) of
Geneva, whose name was enrolled among those of the Saints by Pope
Alexander VII on account of his burning zeal for the conversion of
heretics. His feast is kept by command of the said Pope upon the 29th
day of January, being that day whereon his sacred body was brought to
Annecy from Lyons. Pope Pius IX, in accordance with a vote of the
Congregation of Sacred Rites, declared him a doctor of the universal
Church.
At Rome, the holy priest Domnio.
In Egypt, the holy monk
Theodore (the Sanctified, Abbot from 348, death of St. Pachom of
Tabenno, in Egypt. He lived from 314-April 27, 367), a disciple of holy
Pachom.
In the monastery of
Lerins the holy monk Anthony, famous for his miracles. A monk of Lerins,
which monastery he entered about 523. He died about 525 in the midst of
the congregation did the Lord open his mouth, and filled him with the
spirit of wisdom and understanding, and clothed him with a robe of
glory.
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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