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
Of Celerina, Ignatius, and Laurence nothing, except their names, is
known, and even these would not have come down to us, but for their
being mentioned as glorious martyrs by S. Cyprian, in a letter to
their nephew, S. Celerinus. This Celerinus was first Reader, and then
Deacon, in the Church of Carthage, and received orders from S.
Cyprian. He was in Rome in the year 250, and confessed Christ there in
the Decian persecution, spending nineteen days in chains; but to his
great sorrow, his sister yielded to her fears, and was numbered among
the lapsed. Afterwards Celerinus was unfortunately drawn away by
Novatian into schism, but when he perceived that the schismatic sought
his own advancement rather than the glory of God, he acknowledged his
error, and returned to the communion of the Catholic Church.
S. FORTUNATUS, M.
S. Fortunatus is mentioned, together with many other martyrs, in the
Roman and other Martyrologies on Feb. 2nd, as having suffered at Rome;
but their Acts have not been preserved. The body of S. Fortunatus was
found in 1606, in the cemetery of S. Callixtus, and was given by Pope
Paul V. to the Rev. Jacobus Tirinus, S.J., for the new and beautiful
Jesuit church he had built in Antwerp, in the year 1622. On account of
Feb. 2nd being the Feast of the Purification, the commemoration of S.
Fortunatus has been postponed in that church till Feb. 3rd.
S. BLAISE, B. M.
(A.D. 316.)
[Roman and Western Martyrologies. Commemorated by the Greeks on
Feb. 11th, in some ancient Martyrologies, on Feb. 15th. The Greek
Acts, of which there are four versions, are modern, and deserve
little regard.]
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