Interim Saints - July 23rd
APOLLINARIS, bishop and martyr (about A.D. 75)
Saint Apollinaris was the first bishop of Ravenna, sent there,
according to the apocryphal Acts, by S. Peter. From a very early
period S. Apollinaris has been reverenced at Ravenna. S. Peter
Chrysologus, in a sermon on his festival, styles him a martyr, not
because he died for Christ, but because on several oocasions he was
called to shed some of his blood in testimony of his faith.
The apocryphal Acts are as dull as they are devoid of historical value.
LIBORIUS, bishop (end of 4th cent.)
S. Liborius was bishop of Sens in Gaul, and a friend of s. martin, who
buried him. This is really all that is known of this saint.
JOHN CASSIAN, abbot (beginning of 5th cent.)
When, or on what occasion, he went to Marseilles is not known. there
he built two monasteries, one for men, the other for women, and at the
request of Castor, bishop of Apte, he drew up his "Institutions of the
Monastic Life," as a guide and rule to the religious of his monastery
of S. Victor. To S. Eucherius he dedicated his other immortal work,
his 'Collations' or "Conferences," giving an account of the acts and
sayings of the monks of Egypt, with who he had spent seven years.
ROMULA, virgin (6th cent.)
Romula and another maiden lived in the house of an aged virgin,
Redempta, who had learned to serve God in the religious life from a
virgin named Herundina, a solitary in one of the deserts of Palestine.
Romula was struck with paralysis, but remained in her long illness
perfectly gentle and resigned, praying to God, and singing his praises.
Tomorrow: CHRISTINA THE WONDERFUL!
Oriens.
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