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Addictions are the pleasure flowers that give us joy until the time when we try to remove them and discover the thorns, the stubborn soil and rocks that hold their roots fast in the ground. Not only are addictions drugs and alcohol but also the petty hatreds and stubborn envy that have taken control of our thoughts and deny us opportunities to love those we'd rather resent and hate. Let us begin work in our garden and prepare a place of rest and joy for all those we know and love.
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September 11th - SS. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs
253-269
At Rome, on the old Salarian Way in the cemetery of Basilla, the birthday of the holy martyrs Protus and Hyacinth, brothers, and eunuchs in the service of blessed Eugenia. They were arrested in the time of Emperor Gallienus on the charge of being Christians, and urged to offer sacrifice to the gods. Because they refused, they were most severely scourged and finally beheaded.
THESE martyrs are mentioned in the Depositio martyrum of the middle of the fourth century. They were buried in the cemetery of Basilla or St Hermes on the Old Salarian Way, and here in the year 1845 Father Joseph archi, s.j., found the burial-place of St Hyacinth undisturbed. It was a niche closed with a slab bearing the inscription dp III Idus SEPTEBR/YACINTHUS/MARTYR:
Hyacinth the Martyr, buried September 11. Within it were the remains of the martyr, charred bones and traces of costly material. He had evidently met his death by fire. These precious relics were translated to the church of the Urban College in 1849. Near by was found part of a later inscription, bearing the words SEPULCRUM PR0TI M: The tomb of Protus, M[artyr], but no other trace of him. The relics of St Protus are supposed to have been removed into the city by Pope St Leo IV in the middle of the ninth century, and parts thereof have been translated several times since. In an epitaph by Pope St Damasus, these martyrs are referred to as brothers.
The simple certitude of the passion, burial and finding of St Hyacinth is in marked contrast with the "acts", which are contained in those of St Eugenia and are entirely fictitious. The story is that Eugenia, the Christian daughter of the prefect of Egypt, fled from her father's house with Protus and Hyacinth, her two slaves. Eugenia after various adventures converts her family and many others. Among them, the Roman lady Basilla is brought to the faith by the efforts of Protus and Hyacinth, and she, Protus and Hyacinth are all beheaded together.
See Delehaye's CMH., pp. 501-502, where there is a succinct but complete statement of the facts, with references his Origines du culte des martyrs (1933), pp. 72, 272; and his Étude sur 1e légendier romain (1936), pp. 574-175, 183-184. See also J. Marchi, Monumenti primitivi, vol. i, pp. 238 seq. and 264 seq.; and cf. bibliography of St Eugenia on December 25. On the parish of "St Pratt" (Blisland In Cornwall), see Analecta Bollandiana, vol. lxix (1951), p. 443.
Saint Quote:
Better to live in uncertainty of one's own salvation, and yet devote one's self to the service of God and the welfare of souls, than to die this very hour with the certainty of entering into eternal glory ... We must not act in a niggardly way when God shows Himself so liberal to us.
--St. Ignatius
Bible Quote:
It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:21)
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We must always pray, and not faint.--Luke 18:1-- September: Prayer
26. There is a certain method of prayer which is both very easy and very useful. It consists in accustoming our soul to the presence of God, in such a way as to produce in us a union with Him which is intimate, simple, and perfect. Oh what a precious kind of prayer is this!
--St. Francis de Sales
In all his actions and exercises, Rusbruchio kept his mind elevated to God so that, he confessed, he had obtained from the Lord this special favor, that he could without difficulty immerse himself at will in a most sweet contemplation of the Divinity, whether he was alone in his room or abroad in company with others.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga found nothing easier than to keep his mind constantly united to God, so that he had as much difficulty in turning his thoughts from Him, as others have in keeping them fixed in that direction.
(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints")
Addictions are the pleasure flowers that give us joy until the time when we try to remove them and discover the thorns, the stubborn soil and rocks that hold their roots fast in the ground. Not only are addictions drugs and alcohol but also the petty hatreds and stubborn envy that have taken control of our thoughts and deny us opportunities to love those we'd rather resent and hate. Let us begin work in our garden and prepare a place of rest and joy for all those we know and love.
<<>><<>><<>>
September 11th - SS. Protus and Hyacinth, Martyrs
253-269
At Rome, on the old Salarian Way in the cemetery of Basilla, the birthday of the holy martyrs Protus and Hyacinth, brothers, and eunuchs in the service of blessed Eugenia. They were arrested in the time of Emperor Gallienus on the charge of being Christians, and urged to offer sacrifice to the gods. Because they refused, they were most severely scourged and finally beheaded.
THESE martyrs are mentioned in the Depositio martyrum of the middle of the fourth century. They were buried in the cemetery of Basilla or St Hermes on the Old Salarian Way, and here in the year 1845 Father Joseph archi, s.j., found the burial-place of St Hyacinth undisturbed. It was a niche closed with a slab bearing the inscription dp III Idus SEPTEBR/YACINTHUS/MARTYR:
Hyacinth the Martyr, buried September 11. Within it were the remains of the martyr, charred bones and traces of costly material. He had evidently met his death by fire. These precious relics were translated to the church of the Urban College in 1849. Near by was found part of a later inscription, bearing the words SEPULCRUM PR0TI M: The tomb of Protus, M[artyr], but no other trace of him. The relics of St Protus are supposed to have been removed into the city by Pope St Leo IV in the middle of the ninth century, and parts thereof have been translated several times since. In an epitaph by Pope St Damasus, these martyrs are referred to as brothers.
The simple certitude of the passion, burial and finding of St Hyacinth is in marked contrast with the "acts", which are contained in those of St Eugenia and are entirely fictitious. The story is that Eugenia, the Christian daughter of the prefect of Egypt, fled from her father's house with Protus and Hyacinth, her two slaves. Eugenia after various adventures converts her family and many others. Among them, the Roman lady Basilla is brought to the faith by the efforts of Protus and Hyacinth, and she, Protus and Hyacinth are all beheaded together.
See Delehaye's CMH., pp. 501-502, where there is a succinct but complete statement of the facts, with references his Origines du culte des martyrs (1933), pp. 72, 272; and his Étude sur 1e légendier romain (1936), pp. 574-175, 183-184. See also J. Marchi, Monumenti primitivi, vol. i, pp. 238 seq. and 264 seq.; and cf. bibliography of St Eugenia on December 25. On the parish of "St Pratt" (Blisland In Cornwall), see Analecta Bollandiana, vol. lxix (1951), p. 443.
Saint Quote:
Better to live in uncertainty of one's own salvation, and yet devote one's self to the service of God and the welfare of souls, than to die this very hour with the certainty of entering into eternal glory ... We must not act in a niggardly way when God shows Himself so liberal to us.
--St. Ignatius
Bible Quote:
It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:21)
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We must always pray, and not faint.--Luke 18:1-- September: Prayer
26. There is a certain method of prayer which is both very easy and very useful. It consists in accustoming our soul to the presence of God, in such a way as to produce in us a union with Him which is intimate, simple, and perfect. Oh what a precious kind of prayer is this!
--St. Francis de Sales
In all his actions and exercises, Rusbruchio kept his mind elevated to God so that, he confessed, he had obtained from the Lord this special favor, that he could without difficulty immerse himself at will in a most sweet contemplation of the Divinity, whether he was alone in his room or abroad in company with others.
St. Aloysius Gonzaga found nothing easier than to keep his mind constantly united to God, so that he had as much difficulty in turning his thoughts from Him, as others have in keeping them fixed in that direction.
(Taken from the book "A Year with the Saints")
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