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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 7 · Martyr

St. Anastasius

St. Anastasius

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

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

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on September 7 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: The Modern Roman Martyrology, inserted by Baronins, in these words: “ At Aquileia S. Anastasius the Martyr.” Baronius followed Molanus, who had fallen into a mistake. Anastasius of Aquileia suffered on Aug. 26 at Salona, in Dalmatia, and not at Aquileia. In most copies of the Martyrology of S. Jerome on Aug. 26, in none on Sept. 7. The mistake arose from a curious slip of Molanus, who rendered VII. Kalendas Septembris the 7th of September, instead of Aug. 26. By the Greeks on Dec. 5 and Oct. 25. Authority: — The Acts, not nearly contemporary, but apparently trustworthy.] Anastasius, a fuller of Aquileia, went to live at Salona in Dalmatia, and having made up his mind to suffer martyrdom, he painted a cross on his house, and took occasion ostentatiously to sign himself with the cross. He was arrested and sentenced to be flung into the sea with a stone attached to his neck. A Christian lady of Salona, named Asclepia, promised liberty and a reward to any of her serS. Regina.

Feast days

Feast: September 7

Nine days · Free

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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.