Interim Saints - June 7th
POTAMIĆNA the younger, virgin and martyr (about A.D. 303)
Potamićna was a beautiful young slave girl belonging to a heathen
master at Hermopolis, in Egypt, in the reign of the Emperor Maximian.
Her master inflamed with passion . . .
PAUL, bishop of Constantinople (about A.D. 350)
. . . He was sent to die at Cuscusus, in Armenia. According to the
report of Philagrius, the apostate prefect of Egypt, Paul was shut up
for six days without food, and untimately strangled. Macedonius now
took full possession of the see, but not without violence, and the
massacre of three thousand persons who opposed him.
COLMAN, bishop of Dromore (7th cent.)
It is a misfortune that . . . nothing trustworthy has been handed down
to us, not even the date of S. colman's death. The acts are full of
fables of the most monstrous description.
WULPHLAG, priest and hermit (7th century)
S. Wulphlag, a native of Ponthieu, from his earliest childhood was
devoted to the service of the altar. He married a pious wife shortly
before he was ordained priest, and by her became the father of three
daughters, who grew up virtuous and god-fearing . . . But after a while
he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and on his return announced to
his wife and daughters that he was resolved to embrace an eremitical
life . . . He died in his hermitage, and was buried at Requier.
PETER, WALABONS and companions, martyrs (A.D. 851)
Peter a priest, Walabons a deacon, Sabinian, Wistremund, Habentius, and
Jeremias, monks, suffered in the persecution of the Mussulmans in Spain
. . . Jeremias was first scourged and then, with the rest,
decaptitated.
GOTTSCHALK, prince, martyr (A.D. 1066)
. . . The heathen party, headed by Plasso, Gotteschalk's
brother-in-law, rose and extirpated Christianity. Hamburg and
Mecklenburg were destroyed by the pagans, who sacrificed John, bishop
of Mecklenburg, to their deities, stoned S. Answar, abbot of Ratzeburg,
and twenty-eight monks, to death, assassinated Gotteschalk at Lenzen,
at the the foot of the altar, butchered Eppo the priest, who was
offering the Holy Sacrifice, upon the altar itself, and slaughtered all
the rest of the clergy and Christians who were in the sacred building.
AVENTINE, hermit and monk (8th cent.)
S. Aventine was a native of Larbouse in the Pyrenees, and lived as a
hermit among the rocks of a lovely valley near the Lac d'Oo . . . He is
represented with his head in his hand, and it is pretended that he
carried it thus some little way after his execution.
ROBERT, abbot of Newminster (A.D. 1159)
S. Robert, a native of York, was priest of a church in that city; but
he resigned his charge, and went first to Whitby, and then to Fountains
Abbey, which had just been founded. He afterwards headed a colony of
monks who settled at Newminster, near Morpeth . . . The blessed
Godrick . . . on a certain night, whilst praying, saw the soul of the
saint, released from the body, borne heavenwards by the hands of
angels.
Oriens.
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