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
Sigfried, however, refused to receive
the money. The relics of the three brothers were miraculously
discovered by a light hovering above the pool in which they lay. Their
names have been recorded among the saints on Feb. 15th, along with
their uncle, S. Sigfried. This loss of his coadjutors did not
discourage the saint from the work of the Gospel, which he carried on
with great success. He was buried in the cathedral of Wexiö, and
canonized by the Pope in 1155.
[43] See Giraldus Cambrensis, who refers to the legend in his book, De
Mirabilibus Hiberniæ, c. 28, but relates it of S. Keiven.
February 16.
S. ONESIMUS, _Disciple of S. Paul_, A.D. 95.
S. ONESIMUS, _B. M. of Ephesus_, A.D. 109.
S. HONESTUS, _P. M., Ap. of Pampeluna, circ._ A.D. 270.
SS. PROCLUS, EPHEBUS, APOLLONIUS, _MM. at Teramo, circ._ A.D. 283.
S. CORNELIUS, _M. at Rome, relics at Ghent_.
SS. ELIAS, JEREMIAS, ISAIAS, SAMUEL, AND COMP., _MM. at Cæsarea,
in Palestine_, A.D. 309.
S. JULIANA, _V. M. at Nicomedia, circ._ A.D. 309.
S. FLAVIAN, _H. in the East_.
S. EULALIUS, _B. of Syracuse, after_ A.D. 503.
S. TANCO, _B. of Verden, in Hanover, circ._ A.D. 800.
S. ONESIMUS.
(A.D. 95.)
[There is much confusion between the S. Onesimus, disciple of St.
Paul, and his namesake, bishop of Ephesus. Indeed, by many it is
supposed that there was only one Onesimus, and that the runaway
slave spoken of by S. Paul was afterwards bishop of Ephesus. The
Greeks commemorate the first on Feb. 15th, and the second on
December 1st.]
Onesimus was a Phrygian by birth, slave to Philemon, a person of note
of the city of Colossæ, converted to the faith by S. Paul. Having run
away from his master, he providentially met with S. Paul, then a
prisoner at Rome, who there converted and baptized him, and sent him,
with his canonical letter of recommendation, to Philemon, by whom he
was pardoned, set at liberty, and sent back to his spiritual father,
whom he afterwards faithfully served. The apostle made him, with
Tychicus, the bearer of his Epistle to the Colossians,[44] and
afterwards, as S. Jerome[45] and other fathers witness, a preacher of
the gospel and a bishop. The Greeks say he suffered under Domitian.
There was a bishop of Ephesus, after S. Timothy, of the same name, who
showed great respect for S. Ignatius, when on his journey to Rome, in
107, and is highly commended by him.[46] He was conducted to Rome two
years after, and was stoned to death.
S. HONESTUS, P. M.
(ABOUT A.D. 270.)
[Commemorated at Pampeluna, as the apostle of that place, and at
Amiens with nine lections, and at Toulouse, where his head is
preserved. Besides being mentioned in these Breviaries, his name
occurs in the Anglican Martyrology of Wytford, and in the additions
to Usuardus, by Molanus. All that is known of him is found in the
Acts of S. Firmin, B. M. See Sept. 25th.]
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