Interim Saints - July 22nd
MARY MAGDALEN(E) (1st cent.)
The history of S. mary magdalen is one which has been disputed over
without any certainty having been attained on some points . . . It is
difficult to understand how that Mary of Magdala and Mary of Bethany
can be the same person; but it is quite possible that Mary Magdalen
may have been the woman whose act is related in the 7th chapter of S.
Luke. Origen mentions that in his time some supposed "the woman who
was a sinner," the Magdalen, and Mary of Bethany, to be one and the
same person. "But I," says he, "rather think that they were three
separate persons." . . . In the Eastern Church it has always been
supposed that the Mary of Bethany and the Mary of Magdala were
distinct.
SYNTYCHE (1st cent.)
S. Syntyche was a female member of the church of Philippi; and she is
spoken of honourably by S. Paul as one who was his fellow labourer in
the gospel, and whose name is written in the Book of Life.
PLATO, martyr (about A.D. 306)
Plato the martyr, a native of Ancyra in Galatia, was the brother of the
martyr Antiochus, and was a young man very zealous for the Gospel. He
was brought before the prefect, Agrippinus, and was beaten, then laid
upon red-hot plates of iron . . . and then his head was struck off.
JOSEPH, count, confessor (about A.D. 356)
Joseph was a jew of tiberias, an intimate friend of the Rabbi Hillel,
ruler of the synagogue of Tiberias, in the early part of the 4th
century . . . He was baptized, and returned to Tiberias, where
Constantine, the emperor, made him an officer of state, with the title
of Count, and authority to build churches.
WANDREGISL, abbot (A.D. 667)
S. Wandregisl, or, as he is called in French, S. Wandrille . . . spent
several years in solitude in the Jura, and as a monk at Bobbio, and
finally he built and established, in 648, the great monastery of
Fontanelle in Normandy, which has since borne its name, as S. Vandville
. . .
Of his relics, only two arms remain, one at Fontanelle, the other at
Bron . . .
[Interestingly, both are left arms - ed.]
[Ignore that last remark - I made it up.]
THEOPHILUS THE YOUNGER, martyr (A.D. 790)
Theophilus of Constantinople, of senatorial rank, was sent my the
emperor Constantine and the empress Irene against an Arab fleet which
menaced Cyprus . . . Theophilus was taken captive. He was kept some
time in prison; every possible means was had recourse to, to prevail
on him to abandon his religion and adopt the worship of the sun and
stars, but in vain; and the Arabs cut off his head, wearied at his
obstinate refusal.
Oriens.
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