Roman Martyrology
The daily memory of martyrs, confessors, virgins, bishops, doctors, and holy witnesses.
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1916 Baltimore edition
The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, published by John Murphy Company.
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At Rome, in the time of the emperor Alexander, St. Tatiana, martyr, who was torn with iron hooks and combs, thrown to the beasts and cast into the fire, but, having received no injury, was beheaded, and thus went to heaven. — In Achaia, St. Satyrus, martyr. As he passed before an idol, and breathed upon it, making the sign of the cross on his forehead, the idol immediately fell to the ground; for this reason he was beheaded. — The same day, St. Arcadius, martyr, illustrious by his noble birth and miracles. — In Africa, the holy martyrs Zoticus, Rogatus, Modes tus, Castulus, and forty soldiers gloriously crowned. — At Constantinople, the Saints Tygrius, priest, and Eutropius, lector, who suffered in the time of the emperor Arcadius. — At Tivoli, St. Zoticus, martyr. — At Ephesus, under Constantine Copronymus, the passion of forty-two holy monks, who endured martyrdom after being most cruelly tortured for the defense of sacred images. — At Ravenna, St. John, bishop and confessor. — At Verona, St. Probus, bishop. — In England, St. Benedict, abbot and confessor.
Source: The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, John Murphy Company; local raw text lines 767-796.