Interim Saints - April 4th
AGATHOPUS, deacon and martyr, and THEODULUS, lector and martyr
(beginning of 4th cent)
Agathopus a deacon, and Theodulus, a lector . . . were, by the
governor's orders, thrown into the sea with stones round their necks.
TIGHERNACH, bishop of Clones (A.D. 550)
. . . one day when his chariot driver did not urge on the horses atg
sufficient speed, an angel assumed the whip and reins, to the great
astonishment of the driver, and when he took off his hat and stared at
the angelic charioteer, contrary to the orders of S. Tighernach, his
eyeball fell out, but was immediately replaced by the saintly bishop.
Mura bhfeiceann sibh comharthaí agus iontais, ní chreidfigh sibh!
ISIDORE, bishop of Seville (A.D. 636)
The first Orangeman. "S. Isidore, besides leaving numerous writings,
is believed to have composed or arranged the Mozarabic liturgy, though
we have not got that liturgy now in exactly the same form as he is
though to have left it." - Discuss.
PLATO, abbot and confessor (about A.D. 813)
This holy man was born in the year 735, at Constantinople . . . His
life was very singularly broken into five circles of twelve. He was
twelve when his parents died. He spent twelve years with his uncle
before he left the world. He was twelve years in the monastery of the
Symbols before his election to be abbot, and after having filled this
position for twelve years, he became abbot of the Saccudion for another
twelve.
GWERIR, hermit (uncertain)
Of the saint nothing is known except that he was a hermit at Ham-stoke,
near Liskeard, in Cornwall, and that King Alfred was cured of a painful
disorder when praying in the church built over his grave by S. Neot.
Oriens.
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