Interim Saints - July 13th
SILAS, apostle (1st cent.)
In the Epistles of S. Paul, Silas, the companion of S. Paul, is called
Silvanus. He appears first as one of the elders of the Church at
Jerusalem, holding office as an inspired teacher.
SARA, virgin, abbess (end of 4th cent.)
Little is known of this virgin abbess in Scete, in Lybia, except that
for thirteen years she was tormented with thoughts of impurity, which
distressed inexpressibly her soul craving for pure and holy things.
Tiens, tiens . . .
MAURA and BRIDGET, virgin martyrs (5th cent.)
Maura, probably Mawr, and Bridget, were virgin twin sisters, daughters
of Ella, king of Scotland and Northumberland, and Pantilomena his queen
. . . Maura's face shone at night, so that she had no need of a candle
to go to bed with . . . One night a ruffian broke into the bedrook of
the sisters, in a little inn, to rob and mistreat them. He was much
surprised to find the room already occupied by an angel in the form of
a priest, with a smoking censer in his hand, and retired in surprise
and alarm.
At least, he said he was an angel . . .
EUGENIUS, bishop of Carthage (A.D. 505)
The church of Carthage had been without a bishop for twenty-four years;
but at last [Genseric, king of the Vandals] permitted the Catholics to
choose a bishop . . . Eugenius was ordained bishop of Carthage to the
great joy of the people, some of the younger of whom had never seen a
bishop occupy the throne in the great church.
GOLINDUC, martyr (beginning of 7th cent.)
Acording to the fable that passes for history in these collections,
Cholunduc was cast by Chosroes into an awful pit, in which lived a
dragon, and resided there for "many years," till the dragon became
perfectly tame . . .
MILDRED, abbess (8th cent.)
Very few details of her life have been preserved, which makes it the
more extraordinary that she should have enjoyed such prolonged
popularity . . .
Oriens.
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