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Saint for the Day - August 11 - Sts. Tiburtius
and Susanna
Agrestius Chromatius
was vicar to the prefect of Rome, and had condemned
several martyrs in the reign of Carinus; and in the
first years of Diocletian, St. Tranquillinus, being
brought before him, assured him that, having been
afflicted with the gout, he had recovered a perfect
state of health by being baptized. Chromatius was
troubled with the same distemper, and being
convinced by this miracle of the truth of the
Gospel, sent for a priest, and, receiving the
Sacrament of Baptism, was freed from that corporal
infirmity. Chromatius's son, Tiburtius, was ordained
subdeacon, and was soon after betrayed to the
persecutors, condemned to many torments, and at
length beheaded on the Lavican Road, three miles
from Rome, where a church was afterward built. His
father, Chromatius, retiring into the country, lived
there concealed, in the fervent practice of all
Catholic virtues.
St. Susanna was nobly born in Rome, and is said to
have been niece to Pope Caius. Having made a vow of
virginity, she refused to marry, on which account
she was impeached as a Catholic, and suffered with
heroic constancy a cruel martyrdom. St. Susanna
suffered towards the beginning of Diocletian's
reign, about the year 295.
Saint for the Day - Sts. Tiburtius and Susanna
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Daily Reflection
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Sufferings were to the martyrs
the most distinguishing mercy,
extraordinary graces, and
sources of the greatest crowns
and glory. All afflictions which
God sends are in like manner the
greatest mercies and blessings;
they are the most precious
talents to be improved by us to
the increasing of our love and
affection to God, and the
exercise of the most heroic
virtues of self-denial,
patience, humility, resignation,
and penance. |
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