Interim Saints - April 19th
VINCENT OF CALAHORRA, martyr (A.D. 303)
This martyr is said to have suffered under Diocletian. If we may trust
his legend, his feet were attached to a rope which was passed over a
pulley, and he was drawn up and then dashed head foremost upon flints,
and afterwards consumed in a great fire.
GEROLD, hermit (10th cent.)
Near Mitternach, three hours walk from Bludenz, in the Walserthal, in
Tyrol, lies the scattered village of S. Gerold, with an old church and
a convent, called the Probstei, belonging to the abbey of Einsiedeln .
. . S. Gerold, of the ducal house of Saxony, lived here among the
mountains of the Vorarlberg, as a hermit, towards the close of the 10th
century.
ALPHEGE, archbishop, martyr (A.D. 1012)
S. Alphege, or properly Ælfheagh, was born of a noble family in
Britain, about the year 954
. . . after governing the see of winchester for twenty-two years, he
was translated to that of Canterbury on the death of archbishop Ælfric,
in 1006, being then fifty-five years of age . . .
In 1011, the Danes took Canterbury . . . The city was plundered, and
the cathedral burnt. But what made this taking of Canterbury most
famous is the martyrdom of archbishop Alphege.
LEO IX, pope (A.D. 1054)
The emperor then nominated bishop Bruno of Toul . . . his election was
unanimous, and he was enthroned under the name of Leo IX. His
moderation was so great, that he supported himself, and gave to the
poor, out of the money he had brought with him, for the Papal exchequer
was empty . . . S. Leo had a work demanding the seal of a saint and the
courage of a hero to carry it through.
WERNER, boy martyr (A.D. 1287)
Yet another fable about a boy being murdered by the Jews.
Oriens.
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