Interim Saints - April 12th
ZENO, bishop of Verona (4th cent.)
. . . of his martyrdom we have no knowledge, any more than we have of
the acts of his life.
VICTOR, martyr (date unknown)
Saint victor was a catechumen at Braga in Portugal, who, in a pagan
festival refused to offer incense and flowers to an idol. He was
tortured and decapitated, and was thus baptized in his own blood.
JULIUS I, pope (A.D. 352)
S. Julius succeeded S. Mark as Pope of Rome, in 337. He bravely
sustained S. Athanasius against his Arian foes, and we must refer the
reader to the life of that great doctor of the Church for almost all
that is known of him. He sent legates to the Council of Sardica, in
347.
SABAS THE GOTH, martyr (A.D. 372)
Sabas was a Goth who suffered under Athanaric, king of the Goths, for
refusing to eat meat in honour of their gods. He was drowned by order
of the king in the river Mussovo, in Wallachia, which is either the
Yalonutza or Koltentima, near Tirgovist. The soldiers who were
commissioned to drown him, had attached an axle-tree to his neck, and
when he was under the water, they strangled him with it.
Oriens.
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