Interim Saints - June 1st
GRATIAN and FELINUS, martyrs (uncertain)
" . . . the less said about SS. Gratian and Felinus . . . the better."
PAMPHILUS and others, martyrs (A.D. 309)
Saint Pamphilus was a native of Berytus, and was of a rich and
honourable family . . . But though his flesh was torn off his bones,
and his bowels were exposed, he did not open his mouth. He finished
his martyrdom by a slow fire, and died crying upon Jesus, the Son of
God.
CUNO, archbishop, martyr (A.D. 1066)
Archbishop Anno of Cologne was one of the most ambitious men of his day
. . . On the vacancy of the see of Treves, he appointed to it, with the
emperor's consent, his nephew Cuno, or Conrad, Archdeacon of Cologne,
in high-handed defiance of the rights of the chapter and people of
Treves to choose their own prince-bishop. The clergy and people of
Treves rose to oppose the intrusion . . . [Cuno] was thrown into
chains, treated with savage barbarity, and finally thrown down a rock,
and stabbed to death, as he was found to be still breathing. Cuno
seems to have been a pious, well-meaning man, and was the victim of the
unscrupulous and ambitious schemes of his uncle.
Oriens.
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