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Martyrs
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 49 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
These martyrs suffered under Diocletian, in Cilicia. S. Zosimus was a hermit. His ears were burnt off with red hot irons, afterwards he was plunged into a vessel of molten lead, and was then dismissed.
Share your faith, in words and by example. Preaching and conversion are central here.
Make time for silence. Solitude and withdrawal to pray shape this life.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
These martyrs suffered under Diocletian [Roman emperor 284–305, who began the ‘Great Persecution’ of Christians in 303], in Cilicia. S. Zosimus was a hermit. His ears were burnt off with red hot irons, afterwards he was plunged into a vessel of molten lead, and was then dismissed. He returned to his desert, converted and baptized Athanasius, and died in his cell.
Feast: January 3
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Zosimus and…'s story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.
