THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
The Eighteenth Day of September
- At Osimo in the March of Ancona, St. Joseph of Cupertino, Priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual and
Confessor, whom Clement XIII numbered among the saints.
- In Chalcis, Greece, the birthday of St. Methodius, who was first of all Bishop of Olympus in Lycia and afterwards
Bishop of Tyre in Phoenicia. He was most renowned for the elegance of his preaching and for his learning, and was
crowned with martyrdom (as St. Jerome records) at the very end of the last persecution.
- In the district of Vienne, St. Ferreolus, Martyr, who when holding the office of tribune was arrested at the command of
the most wicked governor Crispin and first of all most cruelly scourged, then burdened with a great weight of chains and
cast into a very foul prison. After his bonds had been loosed and the gates of the prison opened by the divine power, he
was again apprehended by them that persecuted him, and obtained the palm of martyrdom by beheading.
- Likewise, the holy martyrs Sophia and Irene.
- At Milan, St. Eustorgius I, Bishop of that city, rendered famous by the testimony of blessed Ambrose.
- At Gortyna in Crete, St. Eumenes, Bishop and Confessor.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.
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