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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 13 · Martyr

St. Florentius

St. Florentius

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 13
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.

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. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea and Menologies. Introduced by Baronins into the Modem Roman Martyrology. Authority: — Mention in the Menaea.] Florentius of Thessalonica, a very zealous Christian, was hung on the “ little horse, 1 ” and his sides tom with iron rakes; then, more dead than alive, he was cast into a burning pile of wood and consumed.

Feast days

Feast: October 13

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 St. Florentius's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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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.