THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
The Twenty-Fourth Day of September
- Commemoration of our Lady of Ransom, foundress of the Order for the Redemption of
Captives; the apparition of the same Blessed Virgin is mentioned on August 10.
- At Brescia, the death of St. Anathalo, Bishop; he was a disciple of the blessed Apostle
Barnabas and succeeded him as bishop of the Church of Milan.
- In Hungary, St. Gerard, Bishop of Chzonad and Martyr, who is called the Apostle of Hungary
and was a patrician of Venice. While he was on a journey from the town of Chzonad to
Albareale he was attacked by the pagans near the River Danube, stoned by them and then
transfixed with a lance; and so he was the first to adorn his native land with a noble
martyrdom.
- At Autun, the birthday of the holy martyrs Andochius, Priest, Thyrsus, Deacon, and Felix, who
were sent by blessed Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, from the East to evangelize France, and
were there cruelly scourged and hung up by their hands all day long and cast into the fire; but
since they were not burnt, at length their necks were broken with heavy bars and thus they
were gloriously crowned.
- In Egypt, the passion of SS. Paphnutius and his fellow-martyrs. He lived in the wilderness and
when he heard that many Christians were kept in fetters, aroused by the spirit of God he
offered himself of his own will to the prefect and freely confessed the Christian religion. He
was first of all bound with iron chains, and tortured for a long time on the rack; then, together
with many others, he was sent to Diocletian, by whose command he was affixed to a
palm-tree; the rest were slain with the sword.
- At Chalcedon, forty-nine holy martyrs who were condemned to the beasts, under the Emperor
Diocletian, after the martyrdom of St. Euphemia, but being delivered by divine intervention,
they were at last slain with the sword and passed into heaven.
- In Arvernes, Gaul, the death of St. Rusticus, Bishop and Confessor.
- At Flay in the district of Beauvais, St. Geremar, Abbot.
- At San Severino in the March of Ancona, the death of St. Pacificus, Priest, Confessor, of the
Order of Friars Minor, a man illustrious for his wondrous patience and love of solitude, whom
Pope Gregory XVI placed in the Canon of the Saints.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.
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