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April 18 · Bishop, Martyrs

Sts. Eleutherius and…

Sts. Eleutherius and Antia, Matr

Traditional feast

April 18
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Represents

Bishop
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

Keep their day. Remember them on April 18 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Martyrology of S. Jerome and Modern Roman Martyrology. Among the Greeks at Constantinople on December 15th, an account of a church having been dedicated there on that day to the martyrs by the emperor Arcadius, in 400. The Acts which pretend to be by two contemporaries, Eulogius and Theodulus, are a deliberate forgery by some Greek author, who writes, “We two brothers Eulogius and Theodulus, who were both ordained by Eleutherius, have written this; assisted by his exhortations we remained continuously with him, and we have written down for the knowledge of all Christians what we saw with our eyes and heard with our ears." Nevertheless there cannot be a question of the utterly worthless character of these Acts. The Bollandists point them out as purely apocryphal. 1 ] B CJHESE saints are highly venerated at Read in bay Italy, where their relics are preserved. As the |iM acts of these martyrs are a tissue of impossi■HftS bilities and absurdities, the less said of the way in which they suffered the better.

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Feast: April 18

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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.