Interim Saints - March 23rd
PROCULUS, bishop of Verona (4th cent)
Saint Proclus was the fourth bishop of Verona . . . The relics of the
saint were discovered on the rebuilding of the confession or church of
S. Proculus, in 1492.
FINGAR, martyr, and PIALA, virgin and martyr (about A.D. 450)
There was a prince named Corotic [Caractacus] of Cornwall or south
Wales, who was a pirate and a persecutor at once. In, or about, A.D.
450 . . . Corotic landed with a party of his armed followers, many of
whom were Christians, at a season of solemn baptism, and set about
plundering a district in which S. Patrick had just baptized and
confirmed a great many
converts . . . It is probable that S. Fingar was one of the sufferers
in this expedition. He and his sister Piala were probably carried to
Cornwall, and there put to death.
VICTORIAN and others, martyrs (about A.D. 484)
Victorian, proconsul of Carthage . . . so exasperated the [Arian]
tyrant that he made the saint undergo the worst and most protracted
torments his ingenuity could devise. Victorian endured them all with
good courage, and gained the martyr's crown.
ETHELWOLD, hermit (about A.D. 723)
. . . was for some time a monk at Ripon, "where having received the
priestly office," says Bede, "he sanctified it by a life worthy of that
degree . . ." S. Ethelwold spent twelve years at Farne, and died
there; but he was buried in Lindisfarne . . . His bones were
afterwards . . . translated to Durham.
Oriens.
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