On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
The birthday of blessed Onesimus, concerning whom
the blessed Apostle St. Paul wrote to Philemon. He made him bishop of
Ephesus after St. Timothy, and committed to him the office of
preaching. Being led a prisoner to Rome, and stoned to death for the
faith of Christ, he was buried in that city, but his body was
afterwards carried to the place where he had been bishop.
At Cumae in Campania, the Translation of St.
Juliana, virgin and martyr. Under the emperor Maximian she was first
severely scourged by her own father, Africanus, then made to suffer
many torments by the prefect, Evilasius, whom she had refused to
marry. Later being thrown into prison, she encountered the evil
spirit in a visible manner. Finally, as a fiery furnace and a
cauldron of boiling oil could do her no injury, she terminated her
martyrdom by decapitation.
In Egypt, St. Julian, martyr, with five thousand
other Christians.
At Caesarea in Palestine, the holy martyrs Elias,
Jeremias, Isaias, Samuel and Daniel, Egyptians, who of their own
accord served the confessors of Christ condemned to labour in the
mines of Cilicia, but were arrested on their return, and after being
cruelly tortured by the governor Firmilian under the emperor Galerius
Maximian, were put to the sword. After them, St. Porphyry, servant of
the martyr Pamphilus, and St. Seleucus, a Cappadocian, who had been
victorious in several combats, being again exposed to torments, won
the crown of martyrdom, the one by fire, the other by the sword.
At Arezzo in Tuscany, blessed Pope Gregory X, a
native of Piacenza, who was elected Sovereign Pontiff while he was
archdeacon of Liege. He held the second Council of Lyons, received
the Greeks into the unity of the Church, appeased discords among
Christians, made generous efforts for the recovery of the Holy Land,
and governed the Church in the most holy manner.
At Brescia, St. Faustinus, bishop and confessor.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs,
confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
