Interim Saints - March 18th
GABRIEL, archangel
On this day [but on 29th September in the modern calendar] is
commemorated Gabriel the Archangel, who was sent to announce to the
Blessed Mary that she was to become the Mother of God.
ALEXANDER, martyr, Bishop of Jerusalem (A.D. 250)
Alexander, a Cappadocian bishop, having come to Jerusalem to venerate
the holy places, was elected by revelation of God to take the see of
Jerusalem in place of Narcissus . . . he was impisoned, and died in his
dungeon.
NARCISSUS, martyr, Bishop of Gerona (beginning of 4th cent.)
. . . The successof Narcissus so exasperated [the heathen] that they
waylaid him and assassinated him. When king Philip of France took
Gerona, his soldiers pillaged the shrine of S. Narcissus, whereupon a
swarm of hornets issued from it and stung them. Consequently in art he
is represented with hornets issuing from his tomb. [For this reason,
he is also known as St Ung.]
CYRIL, patriarch of Jerusalem (A.D. 389)
Cyril succeeded Maximus in the patriarchal see of Jerusalem, about the
year 350 . . . in 381, S. Cyril was present at the General Council of
Constantinople, and subscribed the condemnation of the semi-Arians and
Macedonians. He died in 386, at the age of seventy.
FRIGIDIAN or FINNIAN, bishop of Lucca (A.D. 589)
S. Finnian of Moville is mentioned in the life of S. Enda as one of his
disciples in Aran, the Isle of Saints . . . He also brought to Ireland
the earliest copy of S. Jerome's translations of the gospels . . . In
540, he founded the great monastery of Moville, where S. columba spent
a portion of his youth.
TETRICUS, bishop of Langres (A.D. 572)
S. Tetricus was the son of S. Gregory of Langres . . . His mother's
name was Armentaria . . . Tetricus ruled with prudence, and was a
burning and a shining light in his diocese.
EDWARD, king and martyr (A.D. 978)
In the year 978, when Edward was aged seventeen, he was murdered. Now,
certainly he was not a martyr for the Christian faith, nor for right
and truth in any shape; but he was a good youth, and was unjustly and
cruelly killed, so people looked on him as a saint, and called him
Edward the Martyr.
Oriens.
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