Interim Saints - February 28th.
A number of people have lamented the (hopefully temporary) absence of
the saints from our list. Until the heavily-burdened Carolyn can
resume her column, I hope nobody will think I have acquired ideas above
my St Ation if I provide an interim sanctorale. I use Sabine
Baring-Gould's "Lives of the Saints", which is perhaps less well-known
than Butler's; some members may appreciate a walk along the way less
travelled. And so Baring-Gould cites the following saints for today:
SS. Nymphas and Eubulus (1st Cent).
On the last day of February are commemorated two friends of S. Paul,
Nymphas, of whom he speaks in his Epistle to the Colossians, and
Eubulus, whom he mentions in his Second Epistle to S. Timothy, as being
with him at Rome. Nymphas was at Laodicea. Nothing further is known
of these two.
SS. Martyrs in the plague at Alexandria (A.D. 261-3)
[Roman Martyrology. Authority:- a paschal letter by Dionysius,
patriarch of Alexandria, quoted by Eusebius, lib. viii. c. 21, 22.]
These brave victims of the plague in Alexandria, who died through
ministering to pest-stricken heathens and Christians alike, are
commemorated by the Church as examples to all whose office or charity
calls them to attend to the sick . . .
SS. Symphorian, Macarius, and others, martyrs at Rome (unknown date)
The bodies of fourteen martyrs, by name, Symphorian, Macarius,
Victorinus, Maurice, Anicetus, Modestus, Cyriacus, Faustus, Placidus,
Rocchus, Alexander, Genesius, Eulalia, and Irene, extracted from the
catacombs of S. Callixtus and S. Lucina, are preserved at Antwerp, in
the Church of the Jesuits, to which they were translated on Feb. 27th,
1650. Nothing is known of the acts and martyrdom of these saints.
S. Proterius, martyr, Patriarch of Alexandria (A.D. 457)
S. Proterius was the head of the orthodox party at Alexandria, when the
patriarch Dioscorus adpoted Eutychian views . . . Proterius took
decided steps to oppose him, and on the condemnation and deposition of
Dioscorus by the Council of Chalcedon, in 452, he was ordained in his
room . . . In a tumult that broke out, Ailurus, having obtained
consecration from two bishops of their faction, mounted the episcopal
throne, and proclaimed himself sole patriarch of Alexandria. Proterius
fled for safety to the baptistery of the Church of S. Quirinus, but the
heretics broke in and stabbed him to death; then dragged his body
through the streets, hacked it to pieces, and burnt it.
S. Romanus, Abbot of Condate (A.D. 460)
[Roman, Benedictine, and most Latin Martyrologies. Authorities:- A
life by a contemporary monk of Condate, also a life by S. Gregory of
Tours.]
Romanus, trained in the monastery of Ainay, near Lyons, left his
father's house at the age of thirty-five, and carrying with him "Lives
of the Fathers of the Desert," and some tools and vegetable seeds, made
his way into the high mountains and inhabited [sic] forests of the Jura
. . . and there founded, under the name of Condate, a monastery
destined to become one of the most celebrated in the West . . .
Relics in the Church of S. Romain-de-Roche in the Jura.
Oriens.
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