On this day according to the ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
At Rome, the passion of St.
Faustinus, whom forty-four others followed to receive the crown of
martyrdom.
In Persia, during the persecution of
Decius, the birthday of blessed Polychronius, bishop of Babylon, who,
being struck in the mouth with stones, stretched out his hands,
lifted up his eyes to heaven and expired.
At Concordia, the holy martyrs
Donatus, Secundian, and Romulus, with eighty-six others, partakers of
the same crown.
At Caesarea in Palestine, St.
Theodulus, an aged man, in the service of the governor Firmilian.
Moved by the example of the martyrs, he confessed Christ with
constancy, was fastened to a cross, and thus by a noble victory
merited the palm of martyrdom.
In the same place, St. Julian, a
Cappadocian, who, because he had kissed the relics of the martyrs,
was denounced as a Christian and led to the governor who had him
consumed with a slow fire.
In the territory of Terouanne, St.
Silvinus, bishop of Toulouse.
In Ireland, St. Fintan, priest and
confessor.
At Florence, blessed Alexius
Falconieri, confessor, one of the seven Founders of the Order of the
Servites of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who, in the one hundred and
tenth year of his age, terminated his blessed career in the consoling
presence of Jesus Christ and the angels.
And in other places, many other holy martyrs,
confessors and virgins.
Thanks be to God.
