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Sts. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs
THE detestable superstition of St. Cyprian’s idolatrous parents devoted him from his infancy to the devil, and he was brought…
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The Theban Legion
The Theban legion numbered more than six thousand men. They marched from the East into Gaul, and proved their loyalty…
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St. Eleutherius, Abbot
WONDERFUL simplicity and spirit of compunction were the distinguishing virtues of this holy man. He was chosen abbot of St.…
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St. Laurence (Lawrence) Justinian, Bishop
LAURENCE from a child longed to be a Saint; and when he was nineteen years of age there was granted…
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St. Rosalia, Virgin
ST. ROSALIA was daughter of a noble family descended from Charlemagne. She was born at Palermo in Sicily, and despising…
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Sts. Primus and Felicianus, Martyrs
THESE two martyrs were brothers, and lived in Rome, toward the latter part of the third century, for many years,…
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Sts. Peter and Dionysia
IN the Decian persecution the blood of the Christians flowed at Lampsacus, a city of Asia Minor. St. Peter was…
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St. Albinus, Bishop
ST. ALBINUS was of an ancient and noble family in Brittany, and from his childhood was fervent in every exercise…
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St. Serenus, a Gardner
SERENUS was by birth a Grecian. He quitted estate, friends, and country to serve God its celibacy, penance, and prayer.…
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St. Barbara, virgin and martyr
ST. BARBARA was brought up a heathen. A tyrannical father, Dioscorus, had kept her jealously secluded in a lonely tower…