The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): FebruaryBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
S. CHRYSOLIUS, _B. M. in Flanders_, A.D. 302.
SS. ADAUCTUS AND COMPANIONS, _MM. at Antandris, circ._ A.D. 303.
S. AUGULUS, _B. M. in London_.
SS. ONE THOUSAND AND THREE MARTYRS AT NICOMEDIA, _circ._ A.D. 302.
S. MAXIMUS, _B. of Nola_ (_see_ S. FELIX, _Jan. 15_).
S. THEODORE, _M. at Heraclea_, A.D. 319.
S. PARTHENIUS, _B. of Lampsacus, 4th cent._
S. MOSES, _B. of the Saracens in Arabia, end of 5th cent._
SS. MOSES AND SIX MONKS, _MM. in Egypt, 5th cent._
S. JULIANA, _W. at Bologna, circ._ A.D. 435.
S. TRESAN, _P. C. of Mareuil, 6th cent._
S. LAURENCE, _B. of Manfredonia, circ._ A.D. 550.
S. FIDELIS, _B. of Merida, circ._ A.D. 570.
S. MELDAN, _B. at Peronne, end of 6th cent._
S. RICHARD, _C. at Lucca_, A.D. 719.
S. LUKE THE YOUNGER, _C. at Soterio, in Greece, circ._ A.D. 946.
S. ROMUALD, _Ab. Founder of the Order of Camaldoli, circ._ A.D. 1027.
S. CHRYSOLIUS, B. M.
(A.D. 302.)
[Molanus in his additions to Usuardus. Ferrarius in his General
Catalogue of Saints. Authorities:--The Lections in use in the Church
of Comines.]
On this day at Comines, in Flanders, is celebrated the Feast of S.
Chrysolius, the patron of the church, who is said to have founded the
first sanctuary of the B. Virgin in Flanders. This saint, a native of
Armenia, accompanied S. Piatus and S. Quentin in their apostolic
mission to France and Belgium. From Tournai he started on a preaching
expedition through Flanders, but the pagans cut off his scalp, in
derision of his tonsure, at Vrelenghem, and he died at Comines, two
leagues distant, on the river Lys. His body was taken up by S.
Eligius, and is, to this day, honoured in the collegiate church there,
originally erected under the invocation of Our Lady.
S. AUGULUS, B. M.
[Martyrology of S. Jerome, falsely so-called, and others.]
Little or nothing is known of this Saint, but all Martyrologies place
him in Britain, and at Augusta, which is probably London. It is
questionable if he was a martyr.
S. THEODORE OF HERACLEA, M.
(A.D. 319.)
[Roman Martyrology on this day. By the modern Greeks on Feb. 8th,
but anciently on the 7th. The Acts purport to be written by one
Augarius, a notary; he says, "I, the Scribe Augarius, was present,
and saw these cruel punishments, and hearing also the pain of his
stifled sighs, casting aside my parchments, I threw myself weeping
at his feet." He says also that he wrote this account at the request
of the dying martyr. If this be not a forgery, the original Acts
have been sadly tampered with. To the account of the martyrdom is
prefixed--very probably by a later hand--a story of the fight of S.
Theodore with a dragon, which belongs to the Western version of the
story of S. George. These Acts certainly existed in their present
condition in 550, for they were then translated into Latin.]
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