Interim Saints - March 14th
MARTYRS UNDER NERO (A.D. 67)
These forty-seven martyrs are believed to have been converted by S.
Peter, at the time when he was confined along with S. Paul, in the
Mamertine prison, in which they spent nine months. According to
tradition S. Peter brought water out of the rock wherewith to baptize
them. They suffered execution by the sword.
PETER, APHRODISIUS, and others, martyrs (date uncertain)
The greatest confusion and uncertainty exists relative to these martyrs
. . . there is some mistake . . . no doubt is wrong . . . an error . .
. pure conjecture . . . There is also no evidence
. . . of equally unknown date.
LUBIN, Bishop of Chartres (A.D. 557)
S. Lubin (Leobinus), was the son of poor parents near Poitiers, and was
born in the reign of Clovis I . . . He died in 587 [sic - error for
557?], and was buried int he church of S. Martin-du-Val, where his body
was religiously preserved till the Calvinists sacked the church in the
16th century, when they burnt his bones, and cast the ashes to the
winds.
MATHILDA, empress (A.D. 968)
The father of the empress Mathilda was Dietrich, count of Ringelheim, a
descendant of the famous Witikind, prince of the Saxons, who had
maintained so long and stubborn a resistance against Charlemagne . . .
She died on March 14th, 968, and was buried in the church of S.
Servetus, at Quedlinburg.
Oriens.
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