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September 15 · Martyrs

Sts. Emilias and Jeremias

Sts. Emilias and Jeremias

Traditional feast

September 15
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 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 September 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Spanish Martyrologies. Authority: — An account of their martyrdom by S. Eulogius of Cordova, a martyr in the same persecution, an eye-witness of their death.] Emilias and Jeremias, natives of Cordova, of noble families, in their early youth were instructed in Arabic, and learned Christian doctrine in the Basilica of S, Cyprian. Emilias was ordained deacon, but Jeremias remained a layman. As they used their facility in speaking Arabic to preach against Mohammed, and denounce the superstition 1 “Totum se cum luctuosa facie in pavimento prostemens ecclesise, cum multis lacrymis ct contrito corde deprecans omnipotcntem Dominum ut pro hoc commLso piaculo nc periclitaretur ejus amma in tetro vallosoque tartareo." of the Mussulman religion, they were arrested and executed with the sword. A violent thunderstorm burst over Cordova on the occasion of their martyrdom.

Feast days

Feast: September 15

Nine days · Free

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

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Sources & notes

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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.