Interim Saints - April 30th
MAXIMUS, martyr (about A.D. 250)
Maximus was first beaten with clubs, then stretched on the rack, and
was finally stoned to death.
EUTROPIUS, bishop and martyr (3rd cent.)
. . . Now it fell out that the governor had a daughter named Eustella,
who having heard the Word, believed with all her heart. And when her
father heard it, he drave her from his house, and she lodged near the
hovel of the man of God. Then the governor full of wrath went forth
with a company of soldiers, and despatched Eutropius, striking him on
the head with an axe.
MARIAN, JAMES and companions, martyrs (about A.D. 259)
. . . Marian and James were travelling in Numidia when they came to
Muguas, a place where persecution was then raging . . . At length all
the martyrs were ordered out to execution, and were placed near a
stream in a green valley, in a long row, and the executioners struck
off their heads one after another, so that their blood ran down into
and mingled with the stream.
DONATUS, bishop of EvrŒa (about A.D. 387)
S. Donatus is related to have killed a monstrous dragon . . . He spat
in the dragon's mouth and slew it.
SEVERUS, bishop of Naples (5th cent.)
S. Severus erected many churches at Naples, amongst others, one in the
city, the apse of which he adorned with mosaics representing Christ and
the Apostles, and seated Prophets beneath them.
ERKONWOLD, bishop of London (A.D. 693)
S. Erkonwold was a brother of S. Ethelburga, for whom he founded the
convent of Barking, in Essex, whilst for himself he built and endowed
the abbey of Chertsey, in Surrey, and became its abbot.
HILDEGARD, queen (A.D. 783)
Charlemagne was married five times . . . After his divorce of
Desiderata, a Lombard princess, he wedded Hildegard, a Swabian.
FORANNAN, abbot of Waulsor (A.D. 982)
Forannan was an Irishman of noble birth, who had been consecrated
bishop of Domnach-mor and Armagh . . . Then he made his way to Waulsor,
and became its fourth abbot.
CATHARINE OF SIENNA, virgin (A.D. 1380)
When six years old she was returning from the house of one of her
married sisters, when she beheld a vision of our Lord in glory seated
in the midst of his Apostles . . . From the moment the child's vocation
was fixed she devoted herself entirely to the life of prayer and
contemplation.
She was canonized in 1461 and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970.
No doubt there are members doing very interesting work of Catharine,
who may wish to share it with us.
LUDWIG, boy martyr (A.D. 1429)
"This is another of the stories of children murdered by Jews."
Oriens.
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