Interim Saints - June 19th
GERVASIUS and PROTASIUS, martyrs (2nd cent.)
. . . Gervasius was beaten with leaden whips until he was dead, and
then the general endeavoured to persuade his brother to sacrifice. But
Protasius declared his readiness to die like his brother, and his head
was struck off.
INNOCENT, bishop of Le Mans (A.D. 542)
S. Innocent was a native of Le Mans; he was baptised, educated and
ordained by S. Victorius.
DEODATUS, bishop (A.D. 679)
S. Deodatus was a member of an illustrious family of Western France.
After the death of Eucherius, he was elected bishop of Nevers, about
the year 655.
Blessed ODO, bishop of Cambrai (A.D. 1113)
Engrossed in the study of grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, and all other
sciences, he felt little interest in the writings of the great
Christian fathers, but loved rather to study Plato and Aristotle. One
day a scholar brought him an old book, which he wished to sell; it was
a work of S. Augustine on "Free Will." He bought it, and flung it into
a box contemptuously. Two months later, he was expounding Boethius to
his disciples, when he lighted in it on a reference to the book on Free
Will by Augustine. then Odo remembered the volume, and wishing to
verify the quotation, found the book, and began to read parts of it.
He had not read many pages before he was engrossed . . . He realized
now how the dialectics and scholastic studies of his day failed to
satisfy and delight; it was endless toil of the mind, but all to no
profit. He would cast off philosophy and try religion . . .
JULIANA FALCONIERI, virgin (A.D. 1341)
She showed such precocious signs of piety that her uncle, the Blessed
Alexis, told her mother that she had brought into the world an angel
rather than a little woman.
Oriens.
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