Interim Saints - March 5th
PHOCAS, martyr (about A.D. 320)
At Antioch, after many sufferings endured for the name of Christ,
Phocas triumphed over the Old Serpent, a victory which is testified, to
this day, by a miracle. for whoever is bitten by a serpent, having
touched, full of faith, the door of the basilica of the martyr, is
immediately cured, the poison at once losing its power; so says the
Roman Martyrology.
GERASIMUS, Abbot in Palestine (A.D. 475)
S. Gerasimus embraced the monastic life in Lycia; he afterwards passed
into Palestine . . . One day as the old abbot was walking on the banks
of the Jordan, he saw a lion limping, and roaring with pain. The lion,
instead of attempting to escape, held up its paw, which was much
swollen, and Gerasimus taking it on his lap, examined it, and saw that
a sharp splinter had entered the flesh. He withdrew the piece of reed,
and bathed the paw . . .
[After Gerasimus died, the lion] went, and stretched himself on the
grave, with his head on the sand, and moaned, and remained there, and
would not leave the place, but was found there dead, a few days later.
KIERAN, or Piran, Abbot of Saigir (about A.D. 552)
An Irish saint.
VIRGILIUS, Archbishop of Arles (about A.D. 618)
S.Virgilius, a native of Aquitania, retired in thildhood to the
monastery of Lerins . . . He is said to have been the consecrator of S.
Augustine of Canterbury to his mission in England, by order of S.
Gregory the Great . . . He was buried in the church of SS. Saviour and
Honoratus, which he had built.
DRAUSINUS, Bishop of Soissons (A.D. 675)
His relics were dispersed at the French Revolution, but his tomb, a
very interesting specimen of Gallo-Roman art, is preserved in the
Louvre.
Blessed PETER of Castelnau, monk and martyr (A.D. 1209)
On January 15th, 1209, Peter had said Mass, and was preparing to cross
the river, when two men [apparently supporters of the Albigensian
cause] ran up, and one of them pierced him through the sides with a
lance. Peter fell down, exclaiming, "Lord, pardon him, as I forgive
him!" then he said a few words to his fellows, and died, praying
fervently.
JOHN-JOSEPH OF THE CROSS, confessor (A.D. 1734)
[A Franciscan, Superior of his convent], an office in which he
displayed great judgment, but which withdrew him too much from
spiritual meditation and reading to be congenial with his tastes. At
his request he was relieved of the office of Superior, and was again
made director of the novices, and fulfilled the duties of this office
for four years. He died on March 5th, 1734, in the convent of S.
Lucia, at Naples.
Oriens.
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