Interim Saints - July 20th
JOSEPH BARSABAS (1st cent.)
Joseph, called Barsabas, or the Son of Sabas, who received the surname
of the Just, was one of the two persons chosen by the assembled Church
as worthy to fill the placed from which Judas, by transgression, fell
[Acts i.23]. The lot, however, fell on Matthias, and he was numbered
with the Twelve Apostles.
MARGARET, virgin and martyr (date uncertain).
It is possible that in one of the persecutions of the Church there
wuffered (sorry, suffered) a virgin martyr at Antioch, named Margaret
or Marina, but we have no authentic account of her passion [or indeed
her name or date].
WILGEFORTIS, virgin martyr (date unknown).
This mythical saint bears a great number of names, I england she was
anciently called S. Uncumber, in Germany she is Ohnkummer, Kummerniss,
Sanct Gehulf; in Flanders Onkommera, Regnfledis; In France S.
Livrade; and in Liturgies she is called S. Liberata, Liberatrix, or
Eutropia [To avoid confusion, no doubt]. . . She was the daughter of
a king of Portugal; one of seven twin sisters. Her father desired to
marry her to the king of Sicily, but Wilgefortis [Uncumber, Gehulf,
Regnfledis, Livrade, Eutropia or what you will] had taken a vow of
perpetual virginity. She therefore prayed, and a beard, moustache and
whiskers, sprouting on her face, indisposed the prince of Sicily to
accept her hand. Her father, in a rage, had her crucified.
VULMAR, abbot (end of 7th cent.)
In his youth Vulmar was married to a girl, named Osterhilda, who had,
however, been betrothed in childhood, by her parents, to someone else.
This man complained to the King of the Franks of the wrong done him by
vulmar, and the king ordered the separation of the young couple . . .
This blow destroyed all Vulmar's happiness . . . He left his home, now
too full of painful reminiscences, and fled to the monastery of
Hautmont in Hainault . . .
ANSEGIS, abbot (A.D. 833)
The life of this abbot is singularly dull and deficient in interesting
particulars.
JEROME EMILIANI, confessor (A.D. 1537)
This great saint was born at Venice, in the year 1481 . . . In 1508, he
served in the Venetian troops . . . the place was taken by the Germans,
the garrison put to the sword, and Emiliani thrown into a noisome
dungeon, laden with chains, and linked by the feet to a ball of stone.
In the darkness of his prison, he reveiwed his past life, and resolved,
should he escape, to endeavour to recompense for the evil he had done,
and the opportunities he had wasted . . . After his marvellous escape,
Jerome at once cast off the chains of his old sins and evil
habits . . . He devoted himself to the care of the sick and starving .
. .
Oriens.
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