Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
August 25
August 25
Martyr
Genesius was a public notary at Arles and a catechumen (a person preparing for baptism). When he was given an imperial edict against the Christians to copy, he threw down his pen and fled the town.
He was overtaken and beheaded on the banks of the Rhone. Prudentius calls him the glory of Arles. Butler places him about the beginning of the fourth century; Baring-Gould gives about 303.
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on August 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: August 25
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Genes's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: -Kathedrale St.Trophime1078-1152Bunte Bleiglasfenster benannt nach dem ersten Bischof(3.Jh.n.Chr)vonArles-Innenraum.JPG · Heilfort Steffen · CC BY-SA 3.0, 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: Heilfort Steffen, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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.
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