Interim Saints - June 3rd and 4th
June 3rd
PEREGRINUS and LAURENCE, martyrs (about A.D. 250)
Saints Peregrinus and Laurence were brothers. In the persecution of
Decius they were brought before Tiburtius the governor, at Arretium,
the modern Arezzo . . . he ordered them to be decapitated.
CLOTHILDA, queen (about A.D. 540)
About the year 492 she was married to Clovis, king of the Franks, a
heathen . . . The gentle influence of Clothilda was daily softening the
prejudices of her husband, and breaking down the barriers which
prevented his conversion . . . When the new Constantine knelt in the
font, "Fierce Sicambrian," said the bishop, "gently bow thy neck: burn
what thou hast adored, and adore what thou hast burned."
KEVIN, abbot (A.D. 618)
S. Kevin or Coemgen (the Fairbegotten) was of an illustrious family, in
the country of the O'Tooles. He father's name was Coemlog, and his
mother was of the princely house of Dal-Messincorbh, and was called
Coemella.
June 4th
QUIRINUS, bishop and martyr (A.D. 304)
Quirinus, of Blessed Memory, was Bishop of Sissek, now a small town, on
the Save in Croatia.
METROPHANES, bishop (A.D. 325)
Metrophanes, bishop of Byzantium, lived to see strange changes. The
quiet little town which he ruled was being transformed into the capital
of the East, and became the residence of the emperor.
OPTATUS, bishop and confessor (about A.D. 380)
S. Optatus was an African, and was educated as an idolator, but was
converted to Christianity, and became bishop of Milevis in Numidia. He
is chiefly known by his books against the Donatists, which is a
principal source of information concerning these schismatics in the
early portion of their history.
PETROCK, abbot (6th cent.)
S. Petrock is said to have been of royal blood, and born in South
Wales, but on the death of his father the king, despising worldly pomp,
he went into Ireland, where he spent twenty years, studying.
BREACHA, virgin (5th or 6th cent.)
This saint is said, but it is more than questionable, to have been a
disciple of S. Patrick. She came to Cornwall from Ireland, and lived a
solitary life on the east bank of the river Hayle.
NENNOCHA, virgin (8th cent.)
The legend of S. Nennocha is pure fable, through which one can scarce
discern the outlines of history.
FRANCIS CARACCIOLO, priest and confessor (A.D. 1608)
Ascanio Caracciolo was born in 1563, at Villa Santa-Maria, in the
kingdom of Naples. At the age of twenty-two he fell ill with a
loathesome malady which was believed to be leprosy, and then feeling
the worthlessness of the world's pleasure, he resolved to devote
himself wholly to God. No sooner had he made this vow, than his health
improved, and the disorder left him.
Oriens.
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