A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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March 14
June 29 (also listed: January 18, February 22)
Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 122 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
The greatest confusion and uncertainty exists relative to these martyrs. In the Roman Martyrology they are said to have suffered in the Vandal persecution, in Africa. But there is some mistake, as the Bollandist fathers have pointed out.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
The greatest confusion and uncertainty exists relative to these martyrs. In the Roman Martyrology they are said to have suffered in the Vandal persecution, in Africa. But there is some mistake, as the Bollandist fathers have pointed out. Aphrodisius there can be no doubt is wrong, and should be Euphrosius, who in ancient Martyrologies is mentioned with SS. Donatus, Frumentius, and others, but not with Peter; and that the martyrdom took place in the Vandal persecution is an error of Baronius [Cardinal Baronius (d. 1607), church historian who edited the Roman Martyrology], trusting to Galesinius, with whom it was pure conjecture. There is also no evidence that Peter ought to be coupled with Euphrosius and Donatus; but on the authority of ancient Martyrologies, with Alexander, Mamerius, Nabor, and others, of equally unknown date.
Feast: June 29
Traditional: March 14
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Peter's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: St. Peter (portrayed as a Roman consul).jpg · Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
Image: Unknown authorUnknown author, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
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