The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January

Name: The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January
Author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Christian saints

A sedition having broken out in Antioch, and the people having
overthrown the statue of the Empress Flacilla, Theodosius, the Emperor,
in a fit of rage, ordered the city to be set on fire and reduced to the
condition of a village. Blood would also have been infallibly shed, had
not S. Ambrose obtained from Theodosius, shortly before, the passing of
the law that no sentence against a city should take effect till thirty
days had expired. The Emperor sent his chamberlain, Eleutherius, to
Antioch to execute his severe sentence against the city and its
inhabitants. As he entered the streets lined with trembling citizens, a
ragged hermit, it was Macedonius, plucked him by the cloak and said: "Go
to the Emperor, and say to him from me, You are not only an Emperor,
but a man; and you ought not only to remember what is due to an empire,
but also to human nature. Man was made in the image and likeness of God.
Do not then order the image of God to be destroyed. You pass this cruel
sentence, because an image of bronze has been overthrown. And for that
will you slay living men, the hair of whose head you cannot make to
grow?" When this speech was reported to the Emperor, he regretted his
angry sentence, and sent to withdraw it.


S. CADOC, AB.

(BETWEEN A.D. 522 AND 590.)

     [English and Gallican Martyrologies. Through a strange confusion,
     S. Cadoc of Wales has been identified with S. Sophias of Beneventum
     in Italy; because S. Cadoc appears in the Martyrologies as S.
     Cadoc, at Benavenna (Weedon), and S. Sophias or Sophius Bishop of
     Beneventum being commemorated the same day, the life given by
     Bollandus, with hesitation, is a confused jumble of these two
     saints into one. The best account of S. Cadoc is in Rees "Lives of
     the Cambro-British Saints;" and in La Ville-marqué's La Légende
     Celtique. There is also a poem composed in honour of S. Cadoc, by
     Richard ap Rhys of Llancarvan, between 1450 and 1480, published in
     the Iolo MSS., p. 301, and the sentences, proverbs and aphorisms of
     S. Cadoc are to be found in Myvrian Archaeology, iii. p. 10. The
     following epitome of his life is from M. de Montalembert's Monks of
     the West, with additions from M. de Ville-marqué and corrections
     from Rees.]

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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): JanuaryBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January

Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Christian saints

A sedition having broken out in Antioch, and the people having
overthrown the statue of the Empress Flacilla, Theodosius, the Emperor,
in a fit of rage, ordered the city to be set on fire and reduced to the
condition of a village. Blood would also have been infallibly shed, had
not S. Ambrose obtained from Theodosius, shortly before, the passing of
the law that no sentence against a city should take effect till thirty
days had expired. The Emperor sent his chamberlain, Eleutherius, to
Antioch to execute his severe sentence against the city and its
inhabitants. As he entered the streets lined with trembling citizens, a
ragged hermit, it was Macedonius, plucked him by the cloak and said: "Go
to the Emperor, and say to him from me, You are not only an Emperor,
but a man; and you ought not only to remember what is due to an empire,
but also to human nature. Man was made in the image and likeness of God.
Do not then order the image of God to be destroyed. You pass this cruel
sentence, because an image of bronze has been overthrown. And for that
will you slay living men, the hair of whose head you cannot make to
grow?" When this speech was reported to the Emperor, he regretted his
angry sentence, and sent to withdraw it.


S. CADOC, AB.

(BETWEEN A.D. 522 AND 590.)

     [English and Gallican Martyrologies. Through a strange confusion,
     S. Cadoc of Wales has been identified with S. Sophias of Beneventum
     in Italy; because S. Cadoc appears in the Martyrologies as S.
     Cadoc, at Benavenna (Weedon), and S. Sophias or Sophius Bishop of
     Beneventum being commemorated the same day, the life given by
     Bollandus, with hesitation, is a confused jumble of these two
     saints into one. The best account of S. Cadoc is in Rees "Lives of
     the Cambro-British Saints;" and in La Ville-marqué's La Légende
     Celtique. There is also a poem composed in honour of S. Cadoc, by
     Richard ap Rhys of Llancarvan, between 1450 and 1480, published in
     the Iolo MSS., p. 301, and the sentences, proverbs and aphorisms of
     S. Cadoc are to be found in Myvrian Archaeology, iii. p. 10. The
     following epitome of his life is from M. de Montalembert's Monks of
     the West, with additions from M. de Ville-marqué and corrections
     from Rees.]

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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January

The Lives of the Saints, Volume 01 (of 16): January

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