Interim Saints - March 9th
PACIAN, Bishop of Barcelona (before A.D. 390)
Very little is known of this Spanish bishop.
GREGORY, Bishop of Nyssa (about A.D. 390)
S. Gregory was a younger brother of the great S. Basil and S. Macrina .
. . It is unnecessary here to give a list of the writings of this
eloquent doctor, a large number of which have been preserved.
BOSA, bishop and confessor (A.D. 705)
Ordainbed bishop of York by S. Theodore, archbishop of Canterbury . . .
He was a man of great sanctity and humility, says Bede. He had for his
successor S. John of Beverley.
CYRIL AND METHODIUS (9th cent)
[Now celebrated on 14th February]. Apostles of the Slavs. "In 858,
some dignitaries of the Chazars, a Hunnish race, besought the emperor
to send them a learned man to instruct them in the true faith, and
Cyril and Methodius were chosen for this purpose . . . In 862, the
Sclavonic princes of Pannonia, Rostislaw, Swaetopolk, and Kotel
requested the emperor Michael and the patriarch Photius, to send them
teachers, 'because they were without true instructior for the people' .
. . None were better calculated to execute this mission than the
brothers Moethodius and Cyril."
CATHARINE OF BOLOGNA, virgin (A.D. 1463)
At the age of eleven she joined the order of the Poor Clares . . . Her
body, incorrupt, is shown in the church of her convent, through glass,
sitting, richly habited, but with face, hands, and feet bare.
FRANCES OF ROME, widow (A.D. 1440)
On the death of her husband, she entered the convent she had founded,
"not as the foundress, but as a humble suppliant for admission . . .
The spiritual daughters of S. Frances hastened to raise and to embrace
her, and clothing her with their habit, they led the way to the chapel,
where they all returned thanks to God. At the same moment, her angel
guardian was changed; another, brighter and more beautiful, stood
beside her, weaving a golden woof our of threads, which he drew from a
palm branch. And this angel, ever busy on this mystic work, remained
beside her till her death, in place of the other."
Oriens.
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