THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
The Nineteenth Day of October
- St. Peter of Alcantara, Priest of the Order of Friars Minor, Confessor, whose birthday is
noted on the previous day.
- At Rome, the birthday of the holy martyrs Ptolemy and Lucius, under Marcus Antoninus; the
former (as St. Julian records) con-verted a certain immodest woman to the faith of Christ and
taught her to live in chastity, and was accused by an impure man before the prefect Urbicius,
and enfeebled for a long time in a foul prison. Finally when by a public confession he bore
witness that Christ was his master, he was ordered to be led out to die. Lucius also, on
protesting against the sentence on Urbicius and freely confessing himself a Christian, received a
like sentence. A third martyr was added to these, being condemned to the same punishment.
- At Antioch, SS. Beronicus, Pelagia, a Virgin, and forty-nine others.
- In Egypt, St. Varus, a soldier, who, under the Emperor Maximian, visited and refreshed seven
holy monks who were kept in prison. When one of them died, he wished to be accepted in his
place, and after suffering with them most cruel torments, he obtained the palm of martyrdom.
- At Evreux in France, St. Aquiline, Bishop and Confessor.
- In the district of Orleans, the burial of St. Veranus, Bishop.
- At Salerno, St. Eusterius, Bishop.
- In Ireland, in a monastery in the Forest of Kildare, St. Ethbin, Abbot.
- At Oxford in England, St. Frideswide, Virgin.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.
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