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
[Illustration: S. Paul, after a Bronze in Christian Museum in the
Vatican.]
FOOTNOTES:
[117] 2 Tim. iii. 14.
[118] 1 Thess. iii. 2; 1 Cor. iv. 17.
[119] Acts xviii.
[120] Rev. ii. 1, 7.
[121] Hist. Eccl. v. c. 19: also Socrates, Eccl. Hist. iii. 19.
[122] The Gododdin, a poem descriptive of the massacre of the
British chiefs at Stonehenge by Hengest, was composed by Aneurin whilst
in prison.
[123] The ancient name of Weedon having been Benavenna, this
has helped to cause the confusion which arose between S. Cadoc and S.
Sophias of Benevento in Italy.
January 25.
CONVERSION OF S. PAUL.
S. ARTEMAS, _M., at Puteoli_.
SS. JUVENTINE AND MAXIMUS, _MM., at Antioch_, A.D. 362.
S. PUBLIUS, _Ab. of Zeugma, in Syria, 4th cent._
S. APOLLO, _Ab. in Egypt, circ._ A.D. 395.
S. MARES, _Ab. in Syria, 5th cent._
S. PRAEJECTUS, _B._, AND COMPANIONS, _at Clermont_, A.D. 674.
S. POPPO, _Ab. of Stavelot, in Belgium_, A.D. 1048.
B. HENRY OF SUSO, _O.S.D., at Ulm, in Germany_, A.D. 1365.
THE CONVERSION OF S. PAUL.
[The circumstances of the Conversion of S. Paul are so fully
recorded in the Acts of the Holy Apostles, chaps. xix., xxii.,
xxvi., as not to need repetition here, being familiar to all. Among
the Greeks, S. Ananias, who baptized S. Paul, is commemorated on
this day.]
S. ARTEMAS, M.
[Commemorated at Puteoli and Naples under the name of Artemas, but
in the ancient Martyrology attributed to S. Jerome, he is called
Antimasius, a mistake of copyists for Artimasius or Artemas. The
Acts are those preserved by the Church of Puteoli, and seem to be
founded on others of great antiquity; they exist only in a
fragmentary condition, and give no clue to the date of the
martyrdom.]
Artemas was a pious Christian boy in Puteoli, in the south of Italy. He
was sent to school to one Cathageta, a heathen. Out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaketh, and the boy, filled with faith, spoke of
his belief to some of his fellow-scholars. It was soon known among the
boys that Artemas was a Christian, and it came to the master's ears.
Cathageta lectured and browbeat the little scholar, and threatened him
with the rod. "You may whip," said the brave boy; "but you will only
whip my faith deeper into me." Then the master, in a rage, shouted to
the boys to punish him, and the cruel tiger-cubs, educated to bloodshed
by the atrocities of the arena, fell upon him with their iron pens,
used for scratching on wax tablets, and stabbed him to death.
[Illustration: THE CONVERSION OF S. PAUL.
After the Cartoon by Raphael.
Jan. 25.]
SS. JUVENTINE AND MAXIMUS, MM., AT ANTIOCH.
(A.D. 362.)
[Authorities: the 40th Homily of S. John Chrysostom; Theodoret,
Hist. Eccl. lib. iii. c. 15; Nicephorus Callistus, lib. x. c. 12.]
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