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These martyrs were put to death with the sword at Calahorra, in Navarre, on the Ebro.

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March 3 · Martyrs

Sts. Emetherius and…

Sts. Emetherius and Chelidonius

These martyrs were put to death with the sword at Calahorra, in Navarre, on the Ebro.

Traditional feast

March 3
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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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 80 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

These martyrs were put to death with the sword at Calahorra, in Navarre, on the Ebro. According to the hymn of Prudentius, and the story of Gregory of Tours, on their execution, the ring of one martyr, and the stole (orarium) of the other, were caught up in a cloud, and ascended into Heaven. Probably this legend contains a reminiscence of an incident such as the wind wafting away some of the martyrs' garments during the execution.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on March 3 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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The full original · 80 words

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Commemorated in the Mozarabic Missal and Breviary; the Evora and Toledo Breviaries, and as a double at Burgos and Leon; Martyrology of S. Jerome, those of Usuardus, Ado, Notker, and the Roman Martyrology. Authority:—A hymn of Prudentius, and Acts of no great antiquity, printed by Tamayus Salazar, and an Elogium by Gregory of Tours.

These martyrs were put to death with the sword at Calahorra, in Navarre, on the Ebro. According to the hymn of Prudentius, and the story of Gregory of Tours [bishop and historian of the Franks (d. 594)], on their execution, the ring of one martyr, and the stole (orarium) of the other, were caught up in a cloud, and ascended into Heaven. Probably this legend contains a reminiscence of an incident such as the wind wafting away some of the martyrs' garments during the execution.

Relics at Calahorra.

Feast days

Feast: March 3

Nine days · Free

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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Emetherius and…'s story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

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.