Interim Saints - May 31st
PETRONILLA, virgin (1st cent)
Saint Petronilla is said to have been a daughter of S. Peter the
apostle. He took her with him to rome, where she became paralysed, but
Simon Magus having asked him why, if he could perform miracles, he
allowed his daughter to remain infirm, S. Peter answered that "It was
expedient for her." Then he added, "Nevertheless, to show the power of
God, she shall rise from her bed and walk." Then he called her, and
she rose, and was restored to her full health.
HERMIAS, martyr (circ. A.D. 166)
S. Hermias was a soldier who suffered in the reign of Marcus Aurelius
Antoninus, at Comana, in Cappadocia. His jaws were broken with a
stone, and his sides, after having been torn, were irritated by the
application of vinegar. His head was finally struck off.
CANTIUS, CANTIAN, and CANTIANILLA, martyrs (about A.D. 290)
. . . there lived two youths, Cantius and Cantianus, and their sister,
Cantiana, or Cantianilla, of the blue Anician blood, grandsons, or
grand-nephews to the emperor Carus. Their tutor, a Christian named
Protus, saw that they could not with safety remain in Rome, and he fled
with them to Aquileia. Into their young hearts he had succeeded in
instilling the divine lessons of the Gospel, and the young princes had
in all probability been baptized . . . the soldiers overtaking them,
the three children and their guardian were promptly executed.
Oriens.
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