On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
In Egypt, in the time of the emperor
Maximian, the birthday of the holy martyrs Victorinus, Victor,
Nicephorus, Claudian, Dioscorus, Serapion and Papias, under the
emperor Numerian. The first two, having borne with constancy torments
of refined cruelty for the confession of the faith, were beheaded.
Nicephorus, after having been laid on a heated gridiron and on the
fire, was hacked into small pieces. Claudian and Dioscorus were
burned alive. Serapion and Papias were killed with the sword.
In Africa, the holy martyrs Donatus,
Justus, Herena and their companions.
At Rome, the birthday of Pope St.
Felix III, great-grandfather of St. Gregory the Great, who relates of
him that he appeared to St. Tharsilla, his niece, and called her to
the kingdom of heaven.
At Constantinople, St. Tarasius,
bishop, a man of great erudition and piety, to whom is addressed an
Epistle of Pope Adrian I in defence of holy images.
At Nazianzus, St. Caesarius, whom his
brother blessed Gregory the Theologian says he saw among the hosts of
the Blessed.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs,
confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
