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    From rich@1:15/0 to All on Tue Aug 29 10:06:19 2017
    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    August 30th =E2=80=93 SS. Felix and Adauctus

    St. Felix was a holy priest in Rome, no less happy in his life and
    virtue than in his name. Being apprehended in the beginning of
    Diocletian's persecution, he was put to the torture, which he suffered
    with constancy, and was condemned to lose his head. As he was going
    to execution he was met by a stranger, who, being a Christian, was so
    moved at the sight of the martyr and the glory to which he was
    hastening that he cried out aloud, "I confess the same law which this
    man professes; I confess the same Jesus Christ; and I also will lay
    down my life in His cause The magistrates hearing this, caused him
    forthwith to be seized, and the martyrs -were both beheaded together.
    The name of this stranger not being known, he was called by Christians Adauctus, i.e. the one added, because he was joined to Felix in
    martyrdom.

    This story, with sundry legendary embellishments, is derived from an inscription of Pope St. Damasus, which ran: "O how truly and rightly
    named Felix, happy, you who, with faith untouched and despising the
    prince of this world, have confessed Christ and sought the heavenly
    kingdom. Know ye also, brethren, the truly precious faith by which
    Adauctus too hastened, a victor, to Heaven." The priest Verus, at the
    command of his ruler Damasus, restored the tomb, adorning the
    thresholds of the saints." SS. Felix and Adauctus were buried in the
    cemetery of Commodilla on the Ostian Way, where a church built over
    their tomb was uncovered in 1905.

    As Felix and Adauctus, in cemetery of Commodilla on the Ostian Way"
    are registered in the Depositio martyrum of 354, we have a solid
    guarantee for their early cultus, which is further confirmed by the
    Leonine sacramentary and many other records. See the Analecta
    Bollandiana, vol. xvi (1897), pp. 17-43, and the discussions by de
    Rossi, Wilpert, Marucchi, Bonavenia, etc., to which Delehaye gives
    references in CMH., pp. 476-478. The passio is in the Acta Sanctorum,
    August, vol. vi.


    Saint Quote:
    Let the sufferings of your Divine Redeemer be deeply impressed on your
    heart, and be assured that He, the Good Shepherd, will conduct you as
    a cherished lamb to His divine fold. And what is the fold of this
    amiable Shepherd? It is the bosom of His heavenly Father.
    --St. Paul of the Cross

    Bible Quote
    As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are
    the fruit of honour and riches. 24 I am the mother of fair love, and
    of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. 25 In me is all grace of
    the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.
    (Sir 24:23-25) DRB


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