
A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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April 28
April 23
Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
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 April 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: April 23
Traditional: April 28
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Felix's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: F09.Charlieu.0039.JPG · Jochen Jahnke 17:41, 21. Apr. 2010 (CEST) · CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Jochen Jahnke 17:41, 21. Apr. 2010 (CEST), Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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.