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A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 19 · Martyrs

Sts. Caprasius and…

Sts. Caprasius and Companions

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 19
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 19 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies; Ado,Usuardus, &c. Authority: — The Acts are spurious, being those of S. Symphorian word for word, but with the name of the martyr and the scene of his martyrdom adapted to S. Caprasius and Agen. Another set of Acts exist, in which S. Fides is mentioned, and her martyrdom given. This is wholly legendary. There is a metrical passion by Hildebert of Sens.] AINT CAPRASIUS a native of Agen, was witness from a distance of the martyrdom of S. Faith (October 6th), and he with two companions, Primus and Felician, were so moved by her heroism that they offered themselves before the governor as Christians ready to suffer for their faith. They were executed with the sword. The Agenois are pleased to regard S. Caprasius as a bishop; of his episcopal dignity nothing is said in the Acts, which speak of him as a youth. 1 Roman Martyrology. Probably the S. Felician of Foligni (Jan. 94), whose relics were translated to Minden, in Westphalia, by Otho I., in 965. oi S. Ursula. Saula is only another form of the name Ursula.

Feast days

Feast: October 19

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.