Interim Saints - April 11th
ANTIPAS, bishop of Pergamos, martyr (A.D. 92)
Antipas is he of whom Christ spake to the angel or bishop of Pergamos,
"Thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those
days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you."
[Rev 2:13] The traditional account is that he was inclosed in a brazen
bull, over a fire, and scorched and suffocated to death therein.
Perillus, the inventor of this horrible mode of execution, was
constrained by Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum, to suffer by it.
LEO THE GREAT, pope (A.D. 461)
Pope Sixtus III died in 440, and all Rome looked as one man to the
pious and energetic Leo, archdeacon of Rome, to fill the vacant chair.
One of his sermons is prescribed for the Office of Readings today. It
is marked, not by any remarkable depth of theology, but by its clear
and striking presentation of orthodox doctrine: "All the more
wonderful is the mercy of God towards us, because Christ died not for
the just or the holy but for the wicked and the impious. And though
the divine nature could not admit the sting of death, by being born
from us he took what he could offer for us."
GODEBERTHA, virgin (A.D. 670)
Godebertha was born of pious parents, in the neighbourhood of Amiens .
. . She received also twelve virgins to serve God under her rule, and
she chose S. Eligius as her spiritual guide.
GUTHLAC, priest and hermit (A.D. 714)
"S. Guthlac, by his canoe voyage into Crowland Island, became the
spiritual father of the University of Cambridge in the Old World; and
therefore of her noble daughter, the University of Cambridge, in the
New World, which fen-men sailing from Boston deeps colonized and
Christianized 800 years after S. Guthlac's death."
Oriens.
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