Interim Saints - May 13th
GLYCERIA, virgin and martyr (about A.D. 177)
Glyceria was a maiden of Trajanopolis, in thrace, who refused to obey
the edict of the emperor, and sacrifice to the idols. She was cruelly
tortured by order of the governor Sabinus, being suspended by her hair
and beaten. She was taken to Heraclea, where she was executed.
MARTYRS OF ALEXANDRIA (A.D. 372)
After the death of S. Athanasius, one Peter was elected to fill his
place as Patriarch of Alexandria. He had shared in the labours and
afflictions of S. Athanasius, and had endeared himself to the people of
Alexandria. But the Emperor Valens was an Arian, and a persecutor, and
Peter was driven from his see . . . and the most atrocious crimes were
committed . . . virgins were beaten about their heads with clubs, and
expired beneath the blows . . .
SERVATUS, bishop of Tongres (A.D. 384)
He was bishop of Tongres, near Maestricht, and was present at the
council of Cologne, held in 346, in which the bishop of Cologne was
deposed for his Arianism.
JOHN THE SILENTIARY, monk (A.D. 558)
. . . Now when an incursion of the Saracens filled all the land with
fear, the monks sent to him to take refuge in their fortified
monastery; but he refused, saying, "If God will not protect me, why
should I care?" And all the while the Saracens were devastating the
land a lion paced in the glen, or couched on the rock before his cell,
and none dared approach. He died at the age of one hundred and four
[John, that is, not the lion].
ROLENDA, virgin (7th or 8th cent.)
S. Rolenda is said to have been the daughter of a Frank prince named
Desiderius . . . she is invoked against gravel and lumbago.
Blessed GéRARD, hermit (A.D. 1267)
B. Gérard of Villamagna, brother of the order of S. John of Jerusalem,
became a hermit at Florence during the latter years of his life.
Oriens.
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