Someone wrote to me saying she felt as if she were eavesdropping on
private conversations. So I daren't say what you know I'm thinking.
Besides, since you can read my mind...
Kwild Thing
Bill East wrote:
>
> Interim Saints - May 2nd, 3rd and 4th
>
> I've got a little behind (don't say it, Kwild Thing) having been on
> Pilgrimage to Walsingham for the last few days, so I offer the saints
> for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of May.
>
> May 2nd
>
> HESPERUS and ZOE, martyrs (May 2nd)
>
> Hesperus and Zoe were two slaves . . . their master, having racked
> them, cast them all into a furnace . . .
>
> ATHANSASIUS THE GREAT, bishop and doctor (A.D. 375)
>
> "His glorious career illustrates 'the incredible power of an orthodox
> faith, held with inflexible earnestness, especially why its champion is
> an able and energetic man.'"
>
> May 3rd
>
> ALEXANDER I, pope (A.D. 117)
>
> According to the Acts of S. Alexander, which are not deserving of much
> credence, the pope converted Hermes, prefect of Rome (Aug 28th) and all
> his household, consisting of twelve hundred souls, by healing his
> infirm son.
>
> TIMOTHY and MAURA, martyrs (about A.D. 286)
>
> S. Timothy was a lector or reader of the Church in the Thebaid . . . As
> he remained inflexible, Arianus [the governor] ordered his young wife
> Maura to use her persuasions with her husband, but she preferred to
> suffer with him. Then Arianus ordered her hair to be torn our in
> handfuls, and finally that both she and her husband should be nailed to
> a wall. And as they were stretched in this their mortal agony, before
> their dim eyes rose a glorious vision of angels beckoning to them, and
> pointing to thrones in heaven at the side of Jesus Christ, for whom
> they died.
>
> THE INVENTION OF THE CROSS (A.D. 326?)
>
> The date and details of the history of the Invention of the Holy Cross
> is involved in great uncertainty . . .
>
> FUMACK, bishop (date uncertain)
>
> The well of the patron saint of Botriphnie, which is a very copious
> spring, is situated in the manse garden, and there S. Fumack bathed
> every morning, summer and winter, then dressed himself in green
> tartans, and crawled round the parish bounds on his hands and knees.
>
> May 4th
>
> JUDAS or QUIRIACUS, bishop (A.D. 133)
>
> Judas was, according to Eusebius, the fifteenth bishop of Jerusalem.
> This Jude is vnerated on the 10th April, but is supposed to be the same
> Jude also called Quiriacus by the Martyrologists, commemorated on this
> day.
>
> PELAGIA, virgin and martyr (3rd cent)
>
> Pelagia was a young girl living at Tarsus in the reign of Diocletian .
> . . She thenceforward refused to marry the son of Diocletian, who was
> desperately in love with her. The poor young man committed suicide
> when he found his suit was vain, and diocletian, highly incensed,
> ordered Pelagia to be enlcosed in a brazen bull over a fire.
>
> SYLVANUS, bishop and martyr of Gaza (A.D. 311)
>
> Sylvanus, the venerable bishop of Gaza, was one of the multitude of
> confessors in Palestine sent to labour in the copper mines. But being
> too old to work, he with others similarly incapacitated by age, or
> blindness, or other bodily infirmities, to the number of thirty-nine,
> was beheaded in one day.
>
> MONICA, widow (A.D. 388)
>
> S. Monica was born in the year 332, in Africa . . . Augustine in his
> Confessions tells us at full all they talked about, at the window, that
> last memorable evening . . . She fell ill and died at Ostia, lovingly
> nursed by Augustine, Navigius, and the boy Alypius.
>
> GOTHARD, bishop of Hildesheim (A.D. 1038)
>
> His life is singularly deficient in incidents awakening interest.
>
> Oriens.
>
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