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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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December 18 · Martyr

St. Moyses

St. Moyses

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

December 18
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 December 18 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus. Authority: — A letter of S. Cornelius of Rome, in Eusebius, H. E. vL 43; and Ep. 16 of S. Cyprian.] S. Cornelius, in his letter to Fabius of Antioch about Novatus, says that the heretic was excommunicated by “ Moyses, the blessed witness who but lately endured a glorious and wonderful martyrdom, and who, whilst yet among the living, seeing the audacity and folly of the man, excluded him from communion.”

Feast days

Feast: December 18

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Moyses's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Bodagisl

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St. Nemesion

St. Nemesion

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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.