The story is told that on the night of 2 June 1260, after Matins (the night office of prayer), a novice, reading the Martyrology for the next day, read out "The forty-nine Martyrs of Sandomir."
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The story is told that on the night of 2 June 1260, after Matins (the night office of prayer), a novice, reading the Martyrology for the next day, read out "The forty-nine Martyrs of Sandomir."
The brothers were amazed, took it as a sign, and prepared to die. (The Martyrology is the book of saints read aloud each day.) That same day Tartar raiders broke into the convent and killed forty-nine of the friars.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 174 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
On the night of the 2nd June, 1260, after Matins, one of the novices read the Martyr ology for the day, and amongst those to be commemorated, read out “ The fortynine Martyrs of Sandomir.” All the brethren were amazed, and accepting it as a sign, prepared for death. That day the Tartars broke into the Convent and massacred fortynine of the friars. » That is, S. Windlass.
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On the night of the 2nd June, 1260, after Matins [the night prayer of the Divine Office], one of the novices read the Martyr ology for the day, and amongst those to be commemorated, read out “ The fortynine Martyrs of Sandomir.” All the brethren were amazed, and accepting it as a sign, prepared for death. That day the Tartars broke into the Convent and massacred fortynine of the friars.
» That is, S. Windlass. Lucca, are also supposed to be contracted Into 8. Elmo. Jane 8. S. Cacilius, P. at Carthage, yd cent.* SS. PsRBORiMut AND Laurence, MM. at Arex— in fuseany, eire, SS. Lucillian, Claud ius, H ypatius, and Coup., MM. at Byzantium, S. Clothilda, Q. at Paris, eire. a.d. 540. S- Liefard, Ab. of Meung, near Orleans, eire. a.d. 550 S. Cocwosn OR Kevin, Ab. of Glen dal ough, a.d. 6x8. S. Genes, B. of Clermont, eire. a.d. 657. S. Isaac, Mk. M. at Cordova, a.d. 851. S. Oliva, V. at Anagni.
S. Morand, Mk. of Clvgny, a.d. mi 4. B. John Grande, C. at Xeret, a.d. x6oo.
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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.