THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
The Eighth Day of September
- The Birthday of the Most Blessed Mary, Ever-Virgin, Mother of God.
- St. Adrian, Martyr, whose birthday is recorded on March 4; his festival is, however, chiefly observed today, for his
sacred body was translated to Rome on this day.
- At Valencia in Terragona, Spain, the birthday of St. Thomas of Villanove, of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustine,
Bishop and Confessor, famous for his burning love for the poor. He was inscribed in the list of the saints by Pope
Alexander VII, and his festival is observed on the 22nd of this month.
- At. Alexandria, SS. Ammon, Theophilus, Neoterius and twentu-two other martyrs.
- At. Antioch, SS. Timothy and Faustus, Martyrs.
- At Gaza in Palestine, the holy martyrs Eusebius, Nestabus and Zeno, brothers, who were torn to pieces and slain by a
heathen mob who attacked them, in the reign of Julian the Apostate.
- In the same place, St. Nestor, Martyr, who gave up the ghost after he had endured most savage torments at the hands
of the same reging heathens, in the reign of the same Julian.
- At Rome, St. Sergius I, Pope and Confessor.
- At Freising, St. Corbinian, the first bishop of that city. He was ordained by Pope St. Gregory II and sent to preach the
Gospel. His words bore plentiful fruit in France and Germany and finally he rested in peace, famed for his virtues and
miracles.
- At Cartagena in South America, St. Peter Claver, Priest of the Society of Jesus and Confessor. He devoted himself for
more than forty years to a life of wonderful self-denial and love for the Negroes who had been enslaved, and with his
own hands baptized alomst 300,000 of them. Pope Leo XIII added him to the list of the saints, and then declared him
to be the special patron in heaven of the Missions to the Negro races, and in the United States his festival is observed
on the 9th of this month.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.
Sep. 7 | Sep. 9
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