On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
In Africa, the birthday of two hundred and twenty
holy martyrs.
At Tangier in Morocco, St. Marcellus, a centurion,
who endured martyrdom by being beheaded under the vice-prefect
Agricolaus.
At Alexandria, in the reign of Decius, thirteen
holy martyrs who suffered with Saints Julian, Eunus and Macarius.
In the same place, St. Eutropia, martyr, who
visited the martyrs, and was so cruelly tortured with them that she
breathed her last.
At Cagliari in Sardinia, St. Saturninus, martyr,
who was beheaded under the governor Barbarus during the persecution
of Diocletian.
At Apamea in Phrygia, St. Maximus, martyr, under
the same Diocletian.
At Leon in Spain, the holy martyrs Claudius,
Lupercus and Victorius, sons of the centurion St. Marcellus, who were
condemned to decapitation in the persecution of Diocletian and
Maximian under the governor Diogenian.
At Ægea in Cilicia, the martyrdom of the Saints
Zenobius, bishop, and Zenobia, his sister, under the emperor
Diocletian and the governor Lysias.
At Altino, St. Theonestus, bishop and martyr, who
was killed by the Arians.
At Paris, St. Lucanus, martyr.
At Antioch, St. Serapion, a bishop very celebrated
for his learning.
At Capua, St. Germanus, bishop and confessor, a
man of great sanctity, whose soul, at the hour of death, was seen by
St. Benedict taken to heaven by angels.
At Potenza in Basilicata, St. Gerard, bishop.
At Palma on the island of Majorca, St. Alphonsus
Rodriguez, a lay brother of the Society of Jesus, who Pope Leo XII
beatified and Pope Leo XIII canonised on account of his remarkable
humility and constant love of mortification.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs,
confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
