Interim Saints - April 2nd
APPHIAN, martyr (A.D. 306)
During the persecution of Maximus Cęsar, afterwards Emperor, in
Palestine, among many other sufferers, Apphian, "that blessed and
innocent lamb," as Eusebius calls him, "presented a wondrous example of
solid piety towards the One true God, and was made a spectacle to all
men before the gates of Cęsarea."
THEODOSIA, virgin and martyr (A.D. 308)
. . . she was seized by the soldiers, and led before the commander.
Presently, merciless and savage as he was, he had her tortured with
dreadful cruelties, furrowing her sides and breasts with instruments,
to the very bones, and then ordered her, yet breathing, and withal
cheerful of counenance, to be cast into the sea . . .
MARY OF EGYPT, and ZOSIMUS, abbot (6th cent)
[Zosimus] saw through the corner of his eye, some hairy creature,
upright like a human being, but strange, moving among the stones . . .
Then he looked, and beheld a figure, naked, tanned almost black, with
white hair . . . Then answered the other, "I pray thee, for the love of
God, approach no nearer; for I am a woman, and I have nothing
wherewith to cover my nakedness; cast me across thy mantle, and then I
will speak with thee" . . . At his earnest solicitations, she told him
her story. It was a sad one, too shocking to be fully told here.
ABUNDIUS, bishop of Como (A.D. 468)
This saint succeeded S. Amantius on the episcopal throne of Como in
445.
MUSA, virgin (6th cent)
S. Musa was a little girl in Rome, who in a dream one night saw a
great company of girls in white, and the Blessed Virgin Mary, who
stayed her when she wished to run among them, telling her that if she
desired to be of that happy company, she must be a good and serious
little girl . . .
FRANCIS OF PAULA, confessor (A.D. 1508)
This saint was born about the year 1416, at Paula, a small town in
Calabria . . . [The Order] of S. Francis of Paula may be distinguished
by its special love for humility, which most earnestly recommended to
his followers as the ground work of all Christian virtues, and he gave
them a name that might express it, namely, that of Minims, to signify
that they were the least in the house of God . . .
Oriens.
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