THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
The Twentieth Day of September
- At Rome, the passion of the holy martyrs Eustace and Theopistis his wife, and their two sons
Agapitus and Theopist, who were condemned to the beasts, under the Emperor Hadrian but
by the help of God were uninjured by them. They were then enclosed in a heated brazen bull
and consummated martyrdom.
- At Cyzicus in Propontis, the birthday of the holy martyrs Fausta, Virgin, and Evilasius, under
the Emperor Maximian. Of these Fausta was made bald and shaved by the said Evilasius, a
priest of idols, in order to debase her, and then hung up and tortured. Afterwards when he
wished to cut her asunder and the executioners could not injure her, Evilasius was terrified and
believed in Christ; whereupon he himself was tortured severely by the Emperor's command,
and Fausta, her head being bored through, and her whole body transfixed with nails, was
placed upon a heated gridiron and, called by a voice from heaven, passed with him to the
Lord.
- In Phrygia, the holy martyrs Denis and Privatus.
- Likewise St. Priscus, Martyr, who was pricked and transpierced with daggers and beheaded.
- At Perge in Pamphylia, SS. Theodore and Philippa his mother, and their fellow-martyrs, under
the Emperor Antoninus.
- At Carthage, St. Candida, Virgin and Martyr, who, under the Emperor Maximian, was torn
with wounds in all her body and con-summated martyrdom.
- At Milan, St. Clicerius, Bishop and Confessor.
- At Rome, the translation of the body of St. Agapitus I, Pope and Confessor, from the city of
Constantinople, in which he had died in the Lord on April 22.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins. Thanks be to God.
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