Sts. Maro, Eutyches and Victorinus

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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April 16 · Martyrs

Sts. Maro

Sts. Maro, Eutyches and Victorinus

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

April 16
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

February 9 (also listed: February 14)
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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

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 16 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Usuardtu and Ado give S. Victorinus on Sept. 5th, But at Riete, S. Maro and his Companions on April 15th; S. Maro is mentioned on this day in the so-called Martyrology of S. Jerome. The Modern Roman Martyrology puts all these together. Authority The Apocryphal Acts of SS. Nereus and Achilles, (May iath.)] (AINTS MARO, EUTYCHES, AND VICTORINUS were exiled for the faith to the island of Ponza, with the blessed Fla via Domitilla, but were afterwards released by the emperor Nerva; but in the persecution of Trajan they suffered under the judge Valerian in different places, in different ways, and on different days. S. Victorinus was suspended in the sulphurous exhalations from Lake Cotylia, near Antrodoco in the Abruzzi. S. Maro was crushed under a heavy stone at Amiternum, or Teramo. Eutyches was killed with the sword.

Feast days

Feast: February 9
Traditional: April 16

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: San Marón de Líbano.jpg · Dawoud al Qorm · Public domain, 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: Dawoud al Qorm, Wikimedia Commons (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.