Interim Saints - March 1st

HESYCHIUS, bishop and martyr (1st Cent.)

Hesychius is traditionally said to have been one of the sevenn apostles
sent by S. Peter into Spain . . . Nothing authentic is known of this
mission, or of his labours and martyrdom.

EUDOCIA, martyr (2nd century)

There was a Samaritan woman named Eudocia, of great beauty, who lived
as a harlot . . .

Baring-Gould dismisses much of her legend as an 'absurd story' which
indeed it is, but it may be of interest nonetheless to list members.

ANTONIA, martyr (4th century)

Antonia is said to have lived in the city of Nicæa, in the reign of
Maxentius.  On account of her refusal to offer incense to the gods she
was stripped of her clothes, hung up, and her sides torn with rakes. 
Then she was thrust into a sack, or earthen vessel (it is uncertain
which), and was drowned in a lake near the city.

DOMNINA, virgin and hermit (about A.D. 460)

Theodoret, after relating the virtues of S. Maro the hermit, goes on to
tell of a holy virgin, named Domnina, who lived in a small shed, and
attended prayers in the Church at cock-crow.  She was exaciated with
continuous fasting;  she neither looked at any one, nor suffered her
own face to be seen.  Whenever she took the hand of Theodoret, the
bishop, to kiss it, he drew it away moistened with her tears.  She
spent her time, when not engaged in prayer, in ministering to the
necessities of travellers.

DAVID, Archbishop of Menevia, and Patron of Wales (A.D. 589)

S. David, or Dewi, as the Welsh call him, was born about 446, at Mynyw,
whach was named S. David's after him.  His father was Sandde, son of
Ceredig, who was the son of Cunedda, the great conqueror of N. Wales. 
His mother's name was Nôn;  she was the daughter of Gynyr of Caergawch
. . . S. David's plain but empty shrine stands now in the choir of S.
David's Cathedral to the north of Edward Tudor's altar tomb.

ALBINUS, Bishop of Angers (about A.D. 549)

His life is singularly devoid of incident which could mark it off from
that of many another abbot and bishop . . .

SWIBERT, the elder, Archbishop of the Frisians (A.D. 713)

S. Swibert was a Northumbrian monk who had been trained under S.
Egbert, whom he accompanied to Ireland . . . and when S. Willibrord
sailed in 690 for [Frisia], Swibert, at Egbert's desire, accompanied
him . . . His relics were found in 1626, at Kaiserwerth, in a silver
shrine, and there are preserved and venerated.

MONAN, archdeacon and confessor (A.D. 874)

S. Adrian, bishop of S. Andrews, trained [Monan] from his childhood,
and appointed him to be his archdeacon. . . The Church suffered
severely from the incursions of the Northmen . . . S. Monan is said by
Butler to have been martyred by these invaders, but this is inaccurate.
 There is no evidence that he died any other than a peaceful death.  He
was buried at Inverny.

LEO, Archbishop of Rouen, martyr (about A.D. 900)

Leo, Gervase, and Philip, were the three sons of pious parents in the
North of France;  Leo was elected to be archbishop of Rouen, but . . .
betook himself with his two brothers to Bayonne, where Christianity had
made but small progress, much heathen superstition remained, and a
colony of Morrs had settled there.  He was well received, and succeeded
in mamaking many converts, but was killed by some pirates . . . He is
represented in Art, at Bayonne, where he is greatly venerated, as a
bishop, holding his head in his hands.

RUDESIND, bishop and confessor (A.D. 977)

The Blessed Rudesind was the son of a Count Gutierre da Mendenez, in
Gallicia. . .  When the child was born, [his mother] desired to have
him baptised in the church, but as there was no font there, one had to
be brought up the hill in a cart.  The cart broke down, says the
popular legend, however, the font continued its journey without it . .
.

His kinsman, Sisnand, bishop of Compostella, was a scandal to the
Church, "spending all his time in sports, excesses, and vanities, and
paying no attention to his duties."  Wherefore, at the request of the
king, Sancho, and the nobles and people, Rudesind undertook the
government of it, and Sancho put Sisnand in prison . . . On the death
of Sancho, Sisnand escaped from prison, attacked Rudesind on Christmas
night, whilst engaged with the canons in the sacred offices, and
threatened him, sword in hand, unless he resigned the see.  Rudesind at
once laid aside his office, and retired into a monastery, where he
assumed the habit, and after some years was chosen abbot.

Oriens.
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