Roman Martyrology

The reading

August 21

At Annecy, in Savoy, the festival of St. Jane -" Frances Fremiot de Chantal, foundress of the Order of Nuns of the Visitation of St. Mary, who is commemorated on the 13th of December. — At Rome, in the Veran field, St. Cyriaca, widow and martyr. In the persecution of Valerian, after devoting herself and all her goods in the service of the saints, she gave up her life by suffering martyrdom for Christ. — At Salona, St. Anastasius, a law officer, who was converted to the faith by seeing the fortitude with which blessed Agapitus bore his torments, and being put to death by order of the emperor Auvolian, for confessing the name of Christ, went to Our Lord. — In Sardinia, the birthday of the holy martyrs Luxorius, Cisellus, and Camerinus, who were put to the sword in the persecution of Diocletian, under the governor Delphius. — In Gevaudan, St. Privatus, bishop and martyr, who suffered in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus. — The same day, the holy martyrs Bonosus and Maximian. — At Fundi, in Campania, St. Paternus, a martyr, who came from Alexandria to Rome to visit the tomb of the Apostles. Thence he retired to the neighborhood of Fundi, where, being seized by the tribune whilst he was burying the bodies of the martyrs, he died in captivity. — At Edessa, in Syria, during the persecution of Maximian, the holy martyrs.Bassa, and her sons Theogonius, Agapius, and Fidelis, whom their pious mother exhorted to martyrdom and sent before her bearing their crowns. Being herself beheaded, she joyfully followed them and shared their victory. — At Verona, St. Euprepius, bishop and confessor. — Also St. Quadratus, bishop. — At Siena, in Tuscany, blessed Bernard Ptolemy, abbot and founder of the Congregation of Olivetans.

Source: The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, John Murphy Company; local raw text lines 8640-8682.