Interim Saints - March 26th
CASTULUS, martyr (about A.D. 286)
Saint Castulus, chamberlain of the palace of Diocletian, was wont to
receive christians into his house, and screen them from the pursuit of
the magistrates. He was denounced to Fabian, the prefect of the city,
who, after troturing him in many ways, had him cast into a pit and
buried in sand.
MONTANUS and MAXIMA, martyrs (date uncertain)
S. Montanus was a priest at Sirmium, in Pannonia, and Maxima was his
wive. They were drowned for the faith either in a river or in a lake;
probably during the persecution of Maximian.
BATHUS, priest, VERCA, and their children, martyrs (about A.D. 370)
Bathus, a Gothic priest, his wife Verca, their two sons and two
daughters, and some others were burned in the church by the Gothic
Jungeric. Gaatha, a Gothic queen, collected their relics, and conveyed
them into Roumania; but on her return she was stoned to death.
BRAULIO, bishop of Saragossa (A.D. 646)
S. Braulio is traditionally said to have been divinely designated for
the episcopate, when the clergy and people were assembled to elect to
the vacant see of Saragosa, by the appearance of a tongue of flame on
his head.
LUDGER, bishop of Münster (A.D. 809)
[This is Münster in Westphalia, not Munster in Ireland. Ludger was not
an Irish saint, but a Frisian, who studied under Alcuin at York.] He
built the cathedral of S. Paul at Münster. The five Frisian counties
contributed largely towards the cost . . . On the day of his death,
March 26th, 809, very early, he heard Mass at Coesfeld, and preached;
then hastening to Billerbeck, arrived there at nine o'clock the same
morning, preached again, and celebrated his last Mass. That evening he
gently expired.
Oriens.
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