On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
At Corinth, the birthday of the holy martyrs
Callistus and Charisius, with seven others, who were cast into the
sea.
At Saragossa in Spain, the birthday of eighteen
holy martyrs, Optatus, Lupercus, Successus, Martial, Urbanus, Julia,
Quinctilian, Pubilus, Fronto, Felix, Caecilian, Eventius, Primitivus,
Apodemius and four others, who, it is said, bore the name of
Saturninus. Under Dacian, governor of Spain, they were all together
subjected to torments and slain. The glory of their martyrdom has
been celebrated in verse by Prudentius.
In the same place, St. Encratis, a virgin and
martyr who had her body lacerated, her breasts cut off, and her liver
plucked out. As she survived these torments she was confined in a
prison until her ulcerated flesh putrefied.
In the same city, the Saints Caius and Crementius,
who twice confessed the faith of Christ, and persevering in it, drank
of the chalice of martyrdom.
Again in the same place, the martyr St. Lambert.
At Palencia, St. Turibius, bishop of Astorga, who
with the aid of Pope St. Leo, drove the heresy of Priscillian
entirely out of Spain and went to rest in the Lord with a great
renown for miracles.
At Braga, in Portugal, the bishop St. Fructuosus.
The same day, St. Paternus, bishop of Avrauches.
In Belgium, near Valenciennes, St. Drogo,
confessor.
At Siena in Tuscany, blessed Joachim, of the Order
of the Servites of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
At Rome, the birthday of St. Benedict Joseph
Labre, confessor, who was renowned for his contempt of self and his
great voluntary poverty.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs,
confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
