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PATRON SAINTS OF TRADE; AND OF PROFESSIONSAeronauts-Our Lady of Loreto. Architects St. Pucisus, martyr, super intendent of the buildings of King Sapor:April 21. Automobilists St. Christopher: July 25. Bakers St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who gave her all to the poor: November 19. Bookbinders St. Peter Celestine, who covered his books with leather: May 19. Builders St. Vincent Ferrer, said to have restored to life three persons who had fallen from heights: April 5. Butchers St. Aureliatus, who was originally a heathen, and killed animals forsacrifice:
who
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Physicians Saints Cormas and Damlan, studied medicine in Syria, where they d the Poor free of charge: Septem-
May
8.
Carpenters
St.
Joseph: March 19.
Comedians St. Vitus: June 15. Dyers St. Lydia: August 3. Farmers St. George, signifyingof the soil:" April 23.
"tiller
Fishermen St. Andrew: November 30. and Gardeners St. Dorothy: February 6. Hatters St. Stevens ol Ravenna, whoFloristshis election to the Bishopric of Ravenna: February 1. Hunters St. Hubert, who, passionately fond of hunting, was pursuing the sport in Holy Week, when a deer, with a cross be-
was a hatter before
its horns, passed him. He became fervent in religion, and eventually a Bishop: November 3. Jewellers St. Eligius, who displayed a great skill in the working of gold: December 1. Journalists St. Frances de Sales Janu-
tween
:
ary 29.
Lawyers St. Ives, who studied in Paris, and pleaded the cause of poor people and widows: May 19. Merchants St. Francis of Assisi, who before his conversion was a noted merchant: October4.
Messengers
St.
Gabriel,
"bearer
of
glad tidings": March 18. Millers St. Victor, who was condemned to death because he refused to offer sacrifice to idols, and was thrown across a mill wheel, which refused to turn: July 21.
Musicians Notariesin
St. Cecilia: St.
November Mark: April 25.
22.
Painter:St. Luke, who has given us his Gospel the best picture of Our:
Lady OctoberPhilosophersdria:
8.
St.
Catherine of Alexan-
November
23.
THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
SmttattPUBLISHED BY ORDER OF GREGORYREVISED BY THE AUTHORITY OP
XIII.
URBAN
VIII, and
CLEMENT
X.
Afterwards, in the year 1749,
Augmented and Corrected by
BENEDICT
XIV.
LAST EDITION, ACCORDING TO THE COPY PRINTED AT ROME IN
1914.
TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN WITH AN INTRODUCTION BYTHE MOST REV. ARCHBISHOP OF BALTIMORE.
EiMtiun. until
tlie
imprimatur of
3?ia
Emiimtr*
(Cardinal (ftibhana.
JOHN MURPHY COMPANY,Printersto
PUBLISHERS,Cardinal Archbishop
the
Holy See and
to
the
of Baltimore.
BALTIMORE.1916.
MOV 2 7 1942
imprimatur:J.
CARD. GIBBONS,ARCHIEP. BALT.
COPYRIGHT,
1897,
BY JOHN MURPHY
&
Co.
INTRODUCTION.
I
HE ROMAN
MARTYROLOGYin
is
an
official
andbut
accredited record, on the pages of which
are set forth
simple and
brief,
impressive words, the glorious deeds of the Soldiersof Christ in all ages of the
Church of the;
illustrious
Heroes and Heroines of the Cross,this long roll of honor, the
whom
her solemn
verdict has beatified or canonized.
In making up
by that instinctive
Church has been actuated wisdom with which the Spirit ofall truth,
God, who abides in her and teaches her
has endowed her, and which permeates through and guides all her actions. She is the Spouse of Christ,
without spot or wrinkle or blemish, wholly glorious
and undefiled, whom He loved, for whom He died, and to whom He promised the Spirit of Truth, tocomfort her in her dreary pilgrimage through this She valley of tears, and to abide with her forever.is
one with
Him
in Spirit
and
in love, she is subject
VI
INTRODUCTION.
to
Him
in all things; she loves
teaches and practises whatIf the
what He loves, He commands.
she
world has
its
"Legions of Honor," why
should not also the Church of the Living God, thepillar
and the ground
of the truth?
been tainted with
have been stained with blood, vice, have had their memory consecrated in prose andin verse,
men who and women who haveIf
and monuments
erected to their memory,
because they exhibited
extraordinary talents,
achieved great success, or
were, to a greater or less extent, benefactors of their
race in the temporal order, which passe th away,
why should not
the true Heroes and Heroines of
Jesus, who, imitating His example, have overcome
themselves, risen superior to and trampled upon the
world, have aspired, in
all
their thoughts, words,
and
actions, to a heavenly crown,
and have more-
over labored with disinterested zeal and self -forgetting love for the good of their fellow-men, have their
memories likewise consecrated and embalmed
in the
minds and hearts of the peoplehaveits heroes,
of
God?
If time
why should not eternity; if man, why should not God? "Thy friends, O Lord, areexceedingly honored; their principalityingly exaltedI"
is
exceed-
Whom
His Father so dearly loved,the world neglects, de-
the world crucified;
whom
INTRODUCTION.
VH
God, through His Church, exceedingly honors and exalts. Their praises are sung forth, with jubilation of heart, in the Churchspises,
aiid
crucifies,
of
God for ages on ages. The wisdom of the Churchis
of
God
in
honoring herare
Saints
equaled only by the great utility of thethusconsecrated.
practice
The
Saints
not
merely heroes; they are models.
Christ lived in
them, and Christ yet speaks through them. They were the living temples of the Holy Ghost, in whose mortal bodies dwelt all the riches of His wisdom andgrace.lars
They weredivinestill
in life consecrated
human examp-
of
excellenceto
example appeals our hearts, more eloquently even than did their\vordsto
and perfection. Their our minds and to
the
men
of
their
own
generation,flesh.
while they
were in the tabernacle of thestill
Though dead, theytinue to
speak.
Their relics are
instinct with sanctity,
and through them they conbreathe forth Ihe sweet odor of Christ. Theinto
which they have entered still lingers in their bones, and seems to breathe in their mortal remains. As many an ardent, spirit has beenimmortality
induced to rush
to the
the exploits of earthly heroes, so
cannon's mouth by reading many a generous
Christian soul has been fired with heavenly ardor,
Vlll
INTRODUCTION.to rush to the
and been impelledof the Saintsits silent
crown
of martyr-
dom, by reading the lives and heroic achievements
and Martyrs of Christ. Example, in appeal, is more potent in its influence onheart and conduct than are words in their
the
human
most eloquent utterances.
The Church knows andof
feels all this, in the Spirit
God with whom
she
is
replenished ; and hence she
sets forth,
with holy joy and exultant hope, her
of bright and ever-increasing Calendar of Sanctity just men and women made perfect and rendered
glorious,
under her unearthly and sublime teachings.roll
In reading this
of consecrated holiness,is,
our
instinctive conclusion
precisely that which the
great soul of St. Augustine reached at the very crisisof hislife,
the
moment
of his conversion
"If other
menI ?
like
me have
attained to such sanctity,
why notcrownof
Shall the poor, the afflicted, the despised of the
World, bear
away the palmI lie
of victory, the
immortality, whilein
buried in
my
sloth
and dead
my
sins,
and thus
lose the brilliant
and glorious
mansion already prepared for me in heaven? Shall all the gifts, which God has lavished upon me, be ingloriously spent and foolishly wasted, in the pettycontest for this world's evanescent honors and riches,
while the poor and contemned lay up treasures in
INTRODUCTION.
IX
heaven, and secure the prize of immortal glory?Shall others be the friends of God,to honor, while I alone
whom He
delights
remain His enemy, and an
alienIt
from His blessed Kingdom ?" is a consoling evidence of progress in thefirst
spir-
itual life in this country to find the
here published, for thethereby
time, in English,
Martyrology and
made
accessible,
in its rich treasures of
Sanctity, to all classes of our population.
It will
prove highly edifying and useful, not only to