The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): MarchBaring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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The Lives of the Saints, Volume 03 (of 16): March
Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Christian saints
Eusebius says that Lucius did not occupy the pontifical throne for
above eight months. He seems to have died on March 4th, under Gallus,
but how we know not. His body was found in the Catacombs, and was laid
in the church of S. Cecilia at Rome, where it is now exposed to the
veneration of the faithful. Considerable portions of the body of S.
Lucius, M., are preserved at Bologna, and a head, purporting to be
that of S. Lucius, was anciently one of the great relics of Roeskilde
Cathedral. But these must be the remains of other saints of the same
name, and it was an error of the clergy of Bologna and of Roeskilde
to assert that these relics belonged to the martyred pope. That such
a mistake may easily have been made is seen from the fact that two
martyrs of the name of Lucius are commemorated on this day, the second
being a companion of Caius the Palatine; and six in January, and as
many in February, not to mention those in the other months. In the
Schleswig Breviary, published in 1512, the feast of S. Lucius, Pope,
M., was observed on account of the presence of the head of a S. Lucius,
M., at Roeskilde, with nine lessons at matins, of which the six first
were taken from the account of the Life and Translation of S. Lucius
the pope, made by pope Paschal in 812.
S. CAIUS THE PALATINE, AND COMP., MM.
(DATE UNCERTAIN.)
[Bede, Usuardus, Ado, Notker, Roman Martyrology. The names of the
companions of S. Caius vary in the Martyrologies.]
S. Caius, and twenty-seven fellow soldiers, suffered for the faith at
Rome. Caius was an officer of the palace, but under what emperor is not
known. He was drowned in the sea.
S. OWEN, MK.
(END OF 7TH CENT.)
[Anglican and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authority:--Bede, Hist.
Eccl., lib. iv. c. 3.]
The venerable Bede says, "Owen was a monk of great merit, having
forsaken the world with the pure intention of obtaining the heavenly
reward; worthy in all respects to have the secrets of our Lord revealed
to him, and worthy to have credit given by his hearers to what he
said; for he came with Queen Etheldreda from the province of the East
Angles, and was her prime minister, and governor of her household. As
the fervour of his faith increased, resolving to renounce the world,
he did not go about it slothfully, but quitting all he had, clad in a
plain garment, and carrying an axe and hatchet in his hand, came to
the monastery of S. Chad, at Lastingham: denoting that he did not go
to the monastery to live idly, as some do, but to labour, and this he
confirmed by his practice; for as he was less capable of meditating
on the Holy Scriptures, he the more earnestly applied himself to the
labour of his hands. In short, he was received by the bishop into the
house aforesaid, and there entertained with the brethren, and whilst
they were engaged within in reading, he was without doing such things
as were necessary.
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