St. Hyacinth

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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July 8 · Martyr

St. Hyacinth

St. Hyacinth

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

July 8
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

August 17
Secondary source · Wikipedia

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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 July 8 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, introduced by Baronius. Greek Menaea and Menology, Russian Kalendar. Authority: — The account in the Menaaa and Menology of the Emperor Basil.] HIS Saint is said to have been chamberlain to the Emperor Trajan, and to have been a native of Caesarea in Cappadocia. When it was discovered that he was a Christian, and that he refused to partake of meat offered to idols, he was thrown into prison, and the jailor was bidden serve him only with food that had been presented sacrificially before the images of the gods. Rather than partake of this, Hyacinth died of starvation. The emperor relented when too late, and ordered food which had not been used as oblations to be given him. The martyr was unable then to swallow, and died of inanition.

Feast days

Feast: August 17
Traditional: July 8

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Carracci Saint Hyacinth.jpg · Ludovico Carracci · 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: Ludovico Carracci, 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.