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October 28th - SS. ANASTASIA AND CYRIL, MARTYRS
CARDINAL BARONIUS added the following entry to the Roman Martyrology
under this date =E2=80=9CAt Rome, the passion of the holy martyrs Anastasia
the Elder, a virgin, and Cyril. This same virgin during the
persecution of Valerian was bound with fetters by the prefect Probus,
smitten with blows and tortured with fire and scourges; and as she
continued unmoved in the confession of Christ her breasts were cut
off, her nails torn out, her teeth broken, her hands and feet hacked
away. Then she was beheaded and, beautified with the jewels of so many sufferings, she passed to her Bridegroom. Cyril brought her water when
she asked therefor, and received martyrdom for his reward.=E2=80=9D
Traditions of the Church of Rome know nothing of these martyrs, who
were first venerated in the East. Their Greek passio says that St
Anastasia was a maiden of patrician birth, twenty years old, who lived
in a community of consecrated virgins. Soldiers of the prefect broke
into the house, carried her off, and brought her before Probus, who
ordered that she be stripped naked. On her protesting that this would
shame him more than it would her, she was maltreated as the
martyrology sets out. Her body was afterwards translated to
Constantinople.
The passio exists both in Greek and in Latin. Both texts are printed
in the Acta Sanctorum, October, vol. xii. J. P. Kirsch seems inclined
to think that the only historical martyr was the widow who suffered at
Sirmium (December 25), but that, as her feast was kept on a different
date in the East, some Greek hagiographer thought it well to invent a
new story of a virgin bearing the same name, which he embellished with
the fantastic details recounted above. See Lexikon f=C3=BCr Theologie und Kirche, vol. i (1930), c. 389.
Saint Quote:
God loves our neighbors so much that He gave His life for them; and He
is glad even to have us leave Him to do them good.=C2 How grateful to
Him, then, may we believe the services we render them!=C2 Ah, if we
understood well how important is this virtue of the love of our
neighbor, we should give ourselves entirely to the pursuit of it.
--St. Teresa
Bible Quote
Blessed is the rich man that is found without blemish: and that hath
not gone after gold, nor put his trust in money nor in treasures. (Ecclesiasticus 31:8)
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Oh Wondrous God, Oh Infinite Mercy
By St Vincent Pallotti (1795-1850)
My God, in every moment
You nourish me with Your Wisdom
and You destroy my ignorance.
You nourish me
with Your inaccessible Light
and You destroy all my shadows.
You nourish me
with Your infinite Perfection
and you destroy my life
which is a monstrosity of imperfections.
You nourish me with Your infinite Being
and you destroy my brutish life,
my loathsome self, a sinful man
and by a miracle of Your Mercy,
even though I have merited infinite times.
to lose God forever, God Himself,
with all of His Nature,
Person and Attributes
made Himself all mine,
He becomes my nourishment
and He nourishes me always,
so as to transform me into Himself
and make me one with Him.
Therefore, I am all in God
and God is all in me
and with His eternal nature
He brings me to all times
and in His immensity,
He brings me to all places
and I experience myself as eternal
and am immersed in Him.
Oh Wondrous God, oh Infinite Mercy.
Amen
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