Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
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April 9
April 9
Martyr
Eupsychius was a native of Caesarea, and had just taken to himself a wife, when he was apprehended and executed.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on April 9 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
…emperor Julian, at Caesarea, the capital of Cappadocia [a region of central Turkey], where the Christians had closed all the temples and destroyed that of Fortune. Sozomen says that the emperor had long regarded the inhabitants of Caesarea with extreme aversion, because they were so zealously attached to Christianity. Eupsychius was a native of Caesarea, and had just taken to himself a wife, when he was apprehended and executed. Sozomen says, “ I believe that Eupsychius was condemned in consequence of the demolition of the temple of Fortune, which excited the anger of the emperor against all the inhabitants of Caesarea. Indeed, all the actors in this transaction were condemned, some to death, and others to banishment 11 S. Gregory Nazianzen mentions a Church dedicated to him (Ep. 26), and S. Basil the Great (Ep. 291) invited the bishops of Pontus [a region on the Black Sea coast of Turkey] to celebrate his feast & WALTRUDIS, ABSS.
(end OF 7TH CENT.) [ 5. Waltrudis, Waldetrude % Vantrude, and Wandru, as she is variously called, is venerated on this day at Mons, as a double with octave, and there her elevation is commemorated on Feb. 3rd, the separation of the head from her body on Aug. 12th. her canonization on Nov. 2nd. When canonized is uncertain, S. Bernard was allowed by Alexander III. to erect an altar in her honour. Her name has been admitted into the modem Roman Martyrology. Authority A life by a contemporary, from the testimony of eye-witnesses. 1 ] S. Waltrudis, patroness of Mons, the capital of Hainault, belonged to a family of saints. Her husband was S. Vincent, founder of Soignies; her sister was S. Aldegund, foundress of Maubeuge; her sons were S. Landric and S. Dentlin; her daughters S. Aldetrudis and S. Madelberta. She was the daughter of count Walbert and the princess Bertilla. She founded a house of canonesses at Mons., Ttais life has, howerer, undergone considerable interpolation. [Aprii zo.
Feast: April 9
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Eupsychius's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: Menologion of Basil 012.jpg · Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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.
Image: Authors of Menologion of Basil II (circa 985 AC, Constantinople), Byzantine manuscript illuminators[1]: Pantoleon with G, Wikimedia Commons (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.
