Interim Saints - July 12th
Carolyn has asked me to carry the baton while she is involved with a
couple of conferences. So here goes:-
MNASON (1st cent.)
[Acts 21:16, "There went with us (to Jerusalem) also certain of the
disciples of Cęsarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an
old disciple, with whom we lodged.]
The expression "old disciple," used by S. Luke, by no means implies, as
Baronius has supposed, that he was one of the original disciples of Our
Blessed Lord; but either that he had long been a Christian, or that he
was an old man.
HERMAGORAS, bishop (1st cent.)
S. Peter said to S. Mark, "Arise! why tarriest thou? Go into the city
called Aquileja, a province of Austria [sic], and there thou wilt find
a youth named Alulf Ulfsson, a leper." [Footnote: 'Lombard names. The
Lombards did not enter Italy till 568]. S. Mark took his staff, and
went to Aquileja, and found the premature Lombard, and he healed him.
Then his father, Ulf, and much people believed; and they asked for a
pastor, so Mark chose out one named Hermenagoras, "an elegant person,"
and took him with him to Rome, where he was ordained bishop by S. Peter
. . .
PAULINUS, bishop, and companions, martyrs (1st cent.)
It must be clearly understood that this story is a romance of the 13th
century, resting on no foundation of truth whatever, except the fact
that a sarcophagus was found in 1261, at Lucca, bearing the
inscription, "Here is the body of the Blessed Paulinus, the first
bishop of Lucca, and a disciple of S. Peter the Apostle . . ."
VERONICA (1st century)
The Greeks give the name of Veronica . . . to the woman with the issue
of blood, healed by our Blessed Lord . . . Thus the image of the woman
with the issue became the portrait of Christ impressed on canvas, and
thus passed into the legend of Veronica and the sudarius as represented
in the Stations of the Cross in every Catholic church.
JOHN GUALBERTO, abbot (A.D. 1073)
The Order of Valumbrosa owes its origin to S. John Gualberto.
ANDREW, boy martyr (A.D. 1462)
Yet another murder blamed on the Jews: "There seems to have been no
suspicion of Jews at the time the murder was committed; for none were
brought before the magistrates . . ."
Oriens.
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