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

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July 7 · Martyrs

Sts. Peregrinus

Sts. Peregrinus, Lucian and Others

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

Traditional feast

July 7
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 16
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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 July 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea and Menology. From these Baronins inserted the names in the Modern Roman Martyrology. Nothing is known of these saints except what is said of them in the Menaea and Menology of Basil.] Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius, Hesychius, Papias, Saturninus, and Germanus, Italians by birth and residence, on the breaking out of persecution under Trajan, fled by sea, and arrived at Dyrrachium, the modern Durazzo in Albania. There they saw the blessed martyr Astius suspended on a cross, exposed to the stings of wasps and flies. They praised his constancy, and were apprehended, confessed Christ, and loaded with chains, were taken in a boat out into the Adriatic and cast overboard.

Feast days

Feast: May 16
Traditional: July 7

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Peregrinus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Apollonius

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St. Pantcenus

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Sts. Claudius

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← All 1726 saints in the library
Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

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.