Old Stuff

The Twenty-second Day of January

At Valencia in Spain, in the province of Tarragona, St. Vincent, deacon and martyr. Under the wicked governor Dacian, he suffered prison, starvation, the rack, the disjointing of his limbs, red-hot metal plates, the blazing gridiron, and other kinds of torture. For the reward of his martyrdom, he went to heaven. Prudentius set forth in noble verse the glorious triumph of his suffering, and St. Augustine and Pope St. Leo commend him with the highest praise. A totum duplex feast.

At Barsaloe in Assyria, St. Anastasius, a Persian monk. After many tortures of imprisonment, floggings, and chains, which he had suffered at Caesarea in Palestine, he was delivered up to more torments under Chosroës, King of the Persians. He was at last beheaded, after sending before him to martyrdom seventy companions, who were drowned in a river. His head, together with his venerated image, was brought to (the Monastery at) Aquae Salviae near Rome[1]. The Acts of the second Council of Nicaea testify that at the sight of his relics demons fled and diseases were cured.

At Embrun in Gaul, the holy martyrs Vincent, Orontius, and Victor, who were crowned with martyrdom in the persecution of Diocletian.

At Novara (in Italy), St. Gaudentius, bishop and confessor.

At Sora (in Italy), St. Dominic, abbot, renowned for miracles.

V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.

R. Thanks be to God.

Footnotes: [1] Aquae Salviae is now known as Tre Fontane; the monastery is that of SS. Vincent and Anastasius.