Interim Saints - March 16th
HILARY, bishop and martyr, TATIAN, deacon and martyr, and companions
(A.D. 285)
Saint Hilary, bishop of Aquileja, in Northern Italy, had a deacon named
Tatian, whom he appointed to be his archdeacon . . . Hilary the bishop,
and Tatian the deacon, and Felix, Largus and Dionysius, three
Christians then in the prison, were slain by order of Beronius, some of
them by having their heads smitten off, and some by having swords
thrust through their breasts.
JULIAN OF ANAZARBUS, martyr (date uncertain)
This saint was a native of Cilicia, the same province which had the
honour of producing S. Paul. In one of the persecutions of the Church
he was sentenced to be tied up in a sack with vipers and scorpions, and
thrown into the sea.
PAPAS, martyr (about A.D. 300)
S. Papas suffered in Lycaonia during the persecution of Maximian.
COLUMBA, virgin and martyr (date unknown)
The great glory of the virgin martyr, Columba of Sens, has eclipsed the
fame of the other two saintly virgin martyrs of this name. Of the S.
Columba venerated in Cornwall on this day, nothing is known.
ANINAS, hermit (date unknown)
This hermit, called variously Aninas and ananias, lived in the flat
deserts of the Euphrates, in a cave, with two lions, out of the foot of
one of which he had drawn a thorn which hurt it.
ABARAHAM, hermit, and MARY, penitent (6th cent.)
Abraham was the son of very wealthy parents at Chidama, in Mesopotamia
. . . secretly in the night, seven days after his marriage, he escaped,
and hid himself in the desert . . . Now it happened that a little gilr,
named Mary, the niece of Abraham, had been left an orphan, and she was
brought to the hermit, as her sole relative, to educate . . . the
unfortunate girl fell deeper into degradation, and became a common
harlot in the city of Assos . . . Abraham broke down the wall which
closed his door, and came forth, cast off his habit and sackcloth, and
disguising himself as a soldier, went to Assos . . . And he took her on
his back, as a shepherd carrying his strayed sheep, and unlocked the
door, and ran out . . . and Mary lived five years after her uncle's
death. God wrought miracles of healing by her hands, to comfort the
penitent soul, and assur her that her tears had blotted out her
transgression.
BONIFACE QUIRITINE, bishop of Ross (7th cent.)
Alban Quiritine, or Kiritine, surnamed Boniface, is fabulously said to
have been of Israelite race, and a descendant of Radia, sister of the
apostles Peter and Andrew. All that is known of him is that he was
bishop of Ross, in Scotland, and that he laboured to suppress the
Keltic ritual and to establish roman uniformity, doing in Scotland the
work accomplished by S. Wilfrid in Northumbria.
EUSEBIA, abbess of Hamage (about A.D. 680)
S. Eusebia was the esldest daughter of S. Adalbald, of Douai, and S.
Richtrudis . . . In Belgium she is called S. Isoie, or Eusoye.
HERIBERT, archbishop of Cologne (A.D. 1021)
Heribert was born at Worms . . . In a time of great drought, when the
country was suffering great distress, and the cattle of the poor were
perishing, he went in procession to the church of S. Severinus, and
kneeling before the altar, bowed his head on his hands, and . . . did
not raise his head till a thunderstorm broke over the church.
Oriens.
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