THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY

The Twenty-Seventh Day of October

1. At Avila in Spain, the passion of SS. Vincent, Sabina and Christeta, who first were stretched on the rack so that all their joints were broken, then their heads, placed over stones, were smitten with heavy bars until their brains were beaten out, and so they fulfilled martyrdom under the governor Dacian.
2. At Til-Châtel in France, St. Florentius, Martyr.
3. In Cappadocia, the holy martyrs Capitolina and Erotheis her maid, who suffered under Diocletian.
4. In the Indies, St. Frumentius, Bishop, who was first of all a captive there and afterwards, being ordained bishop by St. Athanasius, spread the Gospel in that province.
5. At Naples in Campania, St. Gaudiosus, an African bishop who came to Campania by reason of the Vandal persecution and died a holy death in a monastery in that city.
6. In Ethiopia, St. Elesbaan, King, who, after overcoming Christ's enemies, sent his royal diadem to Jerusalem in the time of the Emperor Justin, and after leading a monastic life, as he had vowed, passed to the Lord.

And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.

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