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Saint for the Day - July 23 - St. Apollinaris
St. Apollinaris was the
first Bishop of Ravenna; he sat twenty years, and
was crowned with martyrdom in the reign of
Vespasian. He was a disciple of St. Peter, and made
by him Bishop of Ravenna. St. Peter Chrysologus, the
most illustrious among his successors, has left us a
sermon in honor of our Saint, in which he often
styles him a martyr; but adds, that though he
frequently suffered for the Faith, and ardently
desired to lay down his life for christ, yet God
preserved him a long time to His Church, and did not
allow the persecutors to take away his life. So he
seems to have been a martyr only by the torments he
endured for Christ, which he survived at least some
days.
His body lay first at Classis, four miles from
Ravenna, still a kind of suburb to that city, and
its seaport till it was choked up by the sands. In
the year 549 his relics were removed into a more
secret vault in the same church. St. Fortunatus
exhorted his friends to make pilgrimages to the
tomb, and St. Gregory the Great ordered parties in
doubtful suits at law to be sworn before it. Pope
Honorius built a church under the name of
Apollinaris in Rome, about the year 630. It occurs
in all martyrologies, and the high veneration which
the Church paid early to his memory is a sufficient
testimony of his eminent sanctity and apostolic
spirit.
Saint for the Day - St. Apollinaris
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Daily Reflection
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The virtue of the Saints was
true and heroic, because humble
and proof against all trials.
Persevere in your good
resolutions: it is not enough to
begin well; you must so continue
to the end. |
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