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Sts. Caius and Alexander
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The Forty Martyrs of…
A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 84 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
He was brought up in the desert during his infancy, and growing to maturity, was joined by other young men desirous of a retired life.
Make time for silence. Solitude and withdrawal to pray shape this life.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
In the persecution of Decius [Roman emperor 249–251, who ordered everyone to sacrifice to the gods] many Christians fled to the mountains and deserts until the tyranny was overpast. Amongst these was a woman who was expecting her confinement; she hid in a wild place amongst the rocks, and there brought forth a child whom she named Codratus. He was brought up in the desert during his infancy, and growing to maturity, was joined by other young men desirous of a retired life. They were taken before the governor Jason, at Corinth, and were executed.
Feast: March 10
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Codratus's story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.