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Interim Saints - April 18th ELEUTHERIUS, bishop, and ANTIA, matron, martyrs (circ. A.D. 135) "These saints are highly venerated at Reati in Italy, where their relics are preserved. As the acts of these martyrs are a tissue of impossibilities and absurdities, the less said of the way in which they suffered the better." APOLLONIUS THE APOLOGIST, martyr (about A.D. 185) Apollonius, says Eusebius, was a most eloquent senator of Rome, renowned for his learning and wisdom. He wrote against the Phrygian heresy, and suffered under Commodus, by sentence of Perennis the judge, who ordered his limbs to be broken, and then that he should be decapitated. LASERIAN, bishop and abbot of Leighlin (A.D. 639) S. Laserian was the son of Cairel, a nobleman of Ulster . . . spoke in favour of the Roman system [of calculating Easter] . . . Thenceforth, about the year 633, the new Roman cycle and rules were received in the Southern division of Ireland. AYA, countess of Hainault (7th cent) S. Aya, the wife of S. Hydulph, and related to SS. Aldegund and Waltrudis, gave all her possessions to the chapter of canonesses founded at Mons by S. Waltrudis. Oriens. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%