Interim Saints - April 7th
HEGESIPPUS (about A.D. 180)
Hegesippus was a Jew by birth, and he formed one of the Christian
community at Jerusalem. He visited Rome during the pontificate of S.
Anicetus, and on his way passed through several Churches, especially
that of Corinth; everywhere to his great joy he found the true faith
faught as it was at Jerusalem.
CALLIOPUS, martyr (A.D. 304)
S. Calliopus was the son of a pious and wealthy Christian widow named
Theoclia, at Pergos in Pamphylia . . . he was brought before the
prefect, who sentenced him to be crucified on the following Friday,
which was Good Friday. Then the mother bribed the executioners not to
crucify him in the same manner as his Lord and Master; so they nailed
him to the cross head downwards, and thus he expired.
APHRAATES, hermit (end of 4th cent.)
Aphraates was a Persion by birth, of an illustrious, heathen family, of
the race of the Magi. On his conversion to Christianity, he abandoned
his country, and retired into a cell near Edessa.
EBERHARDT, monk (11th cent.)
Count Eberhardt founded the Benedictine abbey of Schaffhausen . . . It
was dedicated in 1066. After some years he left the world, and retired
into the monastery he had built.
AIBERT, priest and hermit (A.D. 1140)
Aibert was tge sib if a knight Aldbald of Espen, near Tournai. From
early childhood he loved prayer above everything . . . After
twenty-five years in the cloister, in 1115, he returned to a solitary
life in the wilderness.
Blessed HERMANN JOSEPH, confessor (after A.D. 1230)
The Blessed Hermann was the child of poor parents in Cologne. From an
early age his delight was to be in church . . . His reverence was
carried to an extravagance which must strike even the most devout as
grotesque; for he used to pare off his finger nails, and shave off the
hair of his upper lip, and keep the nail parings and scraps of hair
reverently, because they had touched the Holy Sacrament.
Oriens.
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