Interim Saints - April 26th
CLETUS, pope (about A.D. 69)
There is much difficulty is determining the succession of the first
bishops of Rome. It is probable that S. Linus was the first, and that
he was succeeded either by S. Cletus (Anacletus) or S. Clement.
MARCELLINUS, pope and martyr (A.D. 304)
The history of pope S. Marcellinus has been so involved in interested
fiction, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to discover how much
of truth underlies the fable that obscures it.
BASIL OF AMASEA, bishop and martyr (about A.D. 322)
The bishop was brought to Nicomedia, and was there cruelly scourged,
and his head struck off, for having sheltered a maiden from the lust of
an emperor.
TRUDPERT, hermit and martyr (A.D. 643)
Othpert [the local count] built him a little chapel, which was
consecrated to SS. Peter and Paul, by the bishop of Constance, and sent
some of his servants to assist him in cutting wood and gathering in his
hay. Two of these fellows bearing a grudge against the hermit - why is
not known - resolved to kill him; and one day, as Trudpert lay asleep
on his bench before his cell, in the hot sun, one of them clave his
skull with an axe . . .
RICHARIUS, abbot of Centule (7th cent.)
This saint was born at Centule, near Abbeville, at the close of the 6th
or the beginning of the 7th century. He was converted by two Irish
priests, Cadoc and FRigor, who passed through his village . . .
Oriens.
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