During the persecution of the Christians under the Moorish occupation of Spain, there was a priest in the village of Cabra, about five-and-twenty miles from Cordova, named Ruderick, who had two brothers, whereof one had renounced Christianity and become a Moslem. One night this apostate brother and the other were quarrelling, and came to blows, when Ruderick rushed between them to separate them, but was so mauled by both, that he fell senseless on the ground. The Mussulman brother then placed him on a litter, and had him carried about the country, walking by his side, and showing him off as a renegade priest. Ruderick was too much bruised and strained to resist for a while, but he bore this with greater anguish than his bodily injuries, and as soon as ever he was sufficiently recovered, he effected his escape. The renegade meeting him some time after in the streets of Cordova, dragged him before the cadi, and denounced him as having professed the Mussulman religion, and then returned to Christianity. Ruderick indignantly denied that he had ever apostatized, but the cadi, believing the accusation, ordered him to be cast into the foulest den of the city prison, reserved for parricides. There he found a Christian, named Salomon, awaiting sentence on a similar charge of having conformed to the established religion for a while, and then returned to the worship of Christ. They were retained in prison for some time, the cadi hoping thus to weary them into apostasy. But the two confessors encouraged each other to stand fast. Being made acquainted with this, the cadi ordered them to be separated, but when this also failed, he sentenced them both to decapitation. S. KENNOCHA, V. (ABOUT A.D. 1007.) [Aberdeen Breviary. Authority:--The same.] On March 13th, the Ancient Scottish Church commemorated S. Kennocha, a virgin, who, desirous of consecrating herself wholly to Jesus Christ, met with long and vehement opposition from her parents and friends, and underwent from them great hardships and persecution, without shaking her constancy. She led a life as a solitary of great severity, and attained a good old age. She was buried in the church of Kyle. March 14. SS. FORTY-SEVEN MARTYRS, _under Nero, in Rome_, A.D. 67. SS. PETER, APHRODISIUS, AND OTHERS, _MM. at Carthage_. SS. TWO MONKS AND A DEACON, _MM. in the Abruzzi, 6th cent._ S. LUBIN, _B. of Chartres, circ._ A.D. 557. S. EUTYCHIUS, OR EUSTASIUS, AND COMPANIONS, _MM. at Charræ, in Mesopotamia_, A.D. 741. S. MATHILDA, _Emp. of Germany_, A.D. 968. SS. MARTYRS UNDER NERO. (A.D. 67.) [Roman Martyrology. Authority:--The ancient Acts of SS. Processus and Martinian.] These forty-seven martyrs are believed to have been converted by S. Peter, at the time when he was confined along with S. Paul, in the Mamertine prison, in which they spent nine months. According to tradition S. Peter brought water out of the rock wherewith to baptize them. They suffered execution by the sword.