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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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June 28 · Martyr

St. Pappian

St. Pappian

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

June 28
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.

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 June 28 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menaea, Modern Roman Martyrology. Authority The account in the Menaea.] S. Pappianus, or Pappius, is said to have suffered at Mylas, in Sicily, in the persecution of Diocletian. He was stretched between four posts and beaten, and then cast into a vessel of boiling oil. The account in the Menaea is so untrustworthy, and full of evident exaggeration, that it is advisable to say no more on the subject of the sufferings of this martyr.

Feast days

Feast: June 28

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. Pappian'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.