On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
At Rome, St. Apollonius, a senator under the
emperor Commodus and the prefect Perennius. Having been denounced as
a Christian by one of his slaves, and being commanded to give an
account of his faith, he composed an able work which he read in the
Senate. He was nevertheless decapitated for Christ by the sentence of
that body.
At Messina, the birthday of the holy martyrs,
Eleutherius, bishop of Illyricum, and Anthia, his mother. Illustrious
by his holiness of life and his power of working miracles, he was, in
the reign of Hadrian, laid on a bed of red-hot iron, on a gridiron,
in a pan filled with boiling oil, pitch and rosin. He was cast to the
lions but remaining unhurt, he finally had his throat pierced with a
sword. His mother suffered a similar punishment.
In the same place, St. Corebus, prefect, who was
converted to the faith by St. Eleutherius and died by the sword.
At Brescia, St. Calocerus, a martyr, who was
converted to Christ by Saints Faustinus and Jovita, and under the
same Hadrian terminated his glorious combat for the confession of the
faith.
At Cordova, St. Perfect, priest and martyr, killed
by the Moors for inveighing against the followers of Muhammed.
At Milan, St. Galdini, cardinal and bishop of that
city who, at the conclusion of a discourse against heretics, gave up
his soul to God.
At Mount Senario in Tuscany, blessed Amideus, one
of the seven Founders of the Order of the Servites of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, very celebrated for an ardent love of God
.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs,
confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
