THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
The Fourteenth Day of September
- The Exaltation of the Holy Cross, when the Emperor Heraclius brought it back from Persia to
Jerusalem after conquering King Chosroes.
- At Rome, on the Via Appia, blessed Cornelius, Pope and Martyr; in the persecution of
Decius, after being exiled, he was commanded to be beaten with leaden scourges, and was
beheaded with twenty-one others of both sexes. And Caerealis also, a soldier, with his wife
Sallustia, whom the same Cornelius had instructed in the faith, were beheaded on the same
day.
- In Africa, the passion of St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, most renowned for holiness and
learning, who after a hard exile consummated martyrdom by beheading, under the Emperors
Valerian and Gallienus, six miles from Carthage, near the sea. The memory of these saints
Cornelius and Cyprian is, however, kept on September 16.
- At Comana in Pontus, the birthday of St. John, Bishop of Con-stantinople, Confessor and
Doctor of the Church, surnamed Chrysos-tom by reason of the golden stream of his
eloquence, who was driven into exile by a faction of his enemies. He was recalled by a decree
of Pope Innocent I, but, suffering many evils on the journey at the hands of the soldiers who
guarded him, he rendered up his soul to God. His feast is kept on January 27, on which day
his holy body was translated to Constantinople by Theodosius the Younger. Pope Pius X
declared and appointed this most famous preacher of the divine Word patron in heaven of
religious preachers.
- At Trier, St. Maternus, Bishop, a disciple of blessed Peter the Apostle, who brought the
peoples of Tongres, Cologne and Trier, and other neighbouring regions, to the faith of Christ.
- At Rome, St. Crescentius, a boy, the son of St. Euthymius, who fell, smitten by the sword, in
the persecution of Diocletian, under the judge Turpilius, on the Via Salaria.
- In Africa, the passion of the holy martyrs Crescentian, Victor, Rosula and Generalis.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.
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