Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
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January 31
November 14
Martyr
Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 101 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
He was an Englishman, whom S. Peter Nolasco received into his Order at Barcelona. He made two journeys among the Moors for the ransoming of captives, in 1240. The first was to Murcia, in which he purchased the liberty of ninety-eight slaves; the second to Algiers, in which he redeemed eighty-seven, but remained himself a hostage for the full payment of the money.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Share your faith, in words and by example. Preaching and conversion are central here.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
He was an Englishman, whom S. Peter Nolasco received into his Order at Barcelona. He made two journeys among the Moors [the Muslims of North Africa and Spain] for the ransoming of captives, in 1240. The first was to Murcia, in which he purchased the liberty of ninety-eight slaves; the second to Algiers, in which he redeemed eighty-seven, but remained himself a hostage for the full payment of the money. He boldly preached Christ to the Mahometans, and baptised several, for which he was cruelly tortured, scourged, cut and mangled, at length fastened to a cross, and was thereon stabbed and quartered alive in the same year, 1240.
Feast: November 14
Traditional: January 31
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Serapion's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: San Serapio, por Francisco de Zurbarán.jpg · Francisco de Zurbarán · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
Image: Francisco de Zurbarán, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). 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.
