St. Laurence Giustiniani, the first Patriarch of Venice and confessor, who on this day unwillingly ascended the pontifical throne. He died in the Lord on January 8.
In the suburbs of Rome, Blessed Victorinus, bishop and martyr. Noted for his holiness and miracles, he was elected Bishop of Amiterno by the unanimous choice of the people. Later, under Nerva Trajan, he was banished with other servants of God to Contigliano. Here, the judge Aurelian ordered him to be suspended with his head downward over fetid sulphur springs. For the sake of the Lord, Victorinus endured this torture for three days and then left this world in triumph, with a glorious crown. The Christians recovered his body and gave it honorable burial at Amiterno, in the land of the Vestinians.
At Constantinople, the holy martyrs Urban, Theodore, Menedemus, and their seventy-seven companions of ecclesiastical rank. Because of their Catholic faith, they were placed by the Emperor Valens on board a ship and ordered to be burned at sea.
At Portus Romanus, the birthday of St. Herculancus, soldier, who was scourged and beheaded in the reign of the Emperor Gallus because of his Christian faith.
At Capua, the holy martyrs Quinctius, Arcontius, and Donatus.
On the same day, St. Romulus, who was an official of the court of Trajan. The saint denounced the cruelty of the Emperor toward the Christians; for this, he was beaten with rods and then beheaded.
At Mebtine in Armenia, the suffering of the holy soldiers Eudoxius, Zeno, Macarius, and eleven hundred and four of their fellow-soldiers. They flung aside their military insignia in Diocletian's persecution and were slain for confessing Christ.
In the district of Therouanne, at the monastery of Sithiu, in Gaul, St. Bertinus, abbot.
At Toledo in Spain, St. Obdulia, virgin.
Anniversary of the familiares and benefactors of our Order. An Anniversary.
V. And elsewhere, many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
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