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Sts. Martyrs in the…

Sts. Martyrs in the Thebaid

Traditional feast

July 28
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

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Represents

Feast

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 July 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Authority: — S. Jerome in his Life of S. Paul the first hermit.] In the persecution of Decius and Valerian, in which Cornelius of Rome, and S. Cyprian of Carthage shed their blood, many martyrs suffered in Egypt and the Thebaid. One of them was anointed with honey, and exposed jn the sun to be stung by wasps and other insects. This horrible death was one not uncommon in that age. Apulseus mentions a slave so tortured to death in his “Golden Ass.” Another, a young man, was placed in a garden among lovely flowers, and exposed to the blandishments of a courtesan. He bit his tongue off, and spit it in the face of his temptress.

Feast days

Feast: July 28

Nine days · Free

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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.