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August 2 · Martyr

St. Rutilius

St. Rutilius

Traditional feast

August 2
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

Keep their day. Remember them on August 2 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Authority Tertullian, De Fuga in PersecuRutilius, says Tertullian, was a Christian in.Africa who greatly feared death. He therefore, in the persecution of Severus, fled from place to place, and from one hiding-place to another to avoid capture. He even paid money to obtain his exemption from sacrifice. But having been caught, he was brought before the magistrate, boldly confessed Christ, and suffered.

Feast days

Feast: August 2

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. Rutilius's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Stephen I. Pope

St. Stephen I. Pope

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St. Theodota

August 2 · Martyr
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St. Etheldritha

August 2 · Virgin
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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.