CATECHISM OF PERSEVERANCE-COURSE THIRD-CHAPTER 19-Christianity established-Tenth persecution continued-Fourth Century
Publié : lun. 24 août 2026 15:42
Q. What is the history of St. Phocas?
A. St. Phocas was a gardener, and his simplicity and innocence of manners were truly patriarchal. His garden and his thatched cabin afforded him the means of doing charity, and exercising hospitality. The governor of the province sent some soldiers to put him to death. Having arrived without knowing it at the house of Phocas, who entertained them for the night, they asked him where they could find Phocas, whom they had orders to kill. In the morning he said to them, " I have found Phocas; I am he ; I do not fear death." They killed him.
Q. What was the martyrdom of St. Taracus, St. Probus, and St. Andronicus?
A. St. Taracus was an old soldier, and sixty- five years of age when he was apprehended. St. Probus was very rich, but he renounced all in order the better to serve God. St. Andronicus was a young man of one of the first families in Ephesus. They were all three carried before Maximus, the governor of Cilicia, who asked their names and their professions. They replied,"We are Christians; that is our name and our profession."
Q. What punishment did he make them suffer?
A. He caused their teeth to be broken out, their sides to be torn with iron points, their hands to be pierced with red-hot nails, and the skin to be torn from their heads, on which were placed burning coals. Finding that he could not conquer them, he condemned them to be exposed to wild beasts.
Q. How did they die?
A. The day of the show or spectacle a bear and a lioness of enormous size were loosed against them. The roaring of the beasts made the very spectators tremble, but the two beasts gently approached the martyrs, and crouching down before them, licked their feet. The tyrant, being confounded, ordered their heads to be struck off. The Christians carried away the bodies during the night and interred them.
Q. What was the martyrdom of St. Agnes and St. Eulalia?
A. Whilst the blood of the martyrs was flowing in the east, it also be dewed the provinces of the west. Two young virgins of illustrious birth, and heiresses to large fortunes, obtained a glorious victory. The first was St. Agnes, who was scarcely thirteen. The governor of Rome having demanded her in marriage for his son, she replied that she was already promised to a heavenly spouse. By this it was known she was a Christian; and, without being at all moved by the appalling sight of the instruments of death, she tranquilly received the blow a midst the tears of the spectators.
Q. Who was St. Eulalia?
A. St. Eulalia was born at Merida in Spain. Aged about thirteen, she presented herself of her own accord before Dacian, the governor of the province, and reproached him for the impiety that made him wish to destroy the true religion. Dacian caused her to be torn in the side with red-hot hooks. The saint counted her wounds and said tranquilly, " They write your name upon me, Lord; they engrave your victories upon my body. How I love to read such writing!" She was burnt alive.
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A. St. Phocas was a gardener, and his simplicity and innocence of manners were truly patriarchal. His garden and his thatched cabin afforded him the means of doing charity, and exercising hospitality. The governor of the province sent some soldiers to put him to death. Having arrived without knowing it at the house of Phocas, who entertained them for the night, they asked him where they could find Phocas, whom they had orders to kill. In the morning he said to them, " I have found Phocas; I am he ; I do not fear death." They killed him.
Q. What was the martyrdom of St. Taracus, St. Probus, and St. Andronicus?
A. St. Taracus was an old soldier, and sixty- five years of age when he was apprehended. St. Probus was very rich, but he renounced all in order the better to serve God. St. Andronicus was a young man of one of the first families in Ephesus. They were all three carried before Maximus, the governor of Cilicia, who asked their names and their professions. They replied,"We are Christians; that is our name and our profession."
Q. What punishment did he make them suffer?
A. He caused their teeth to be broken out, their sides to be torn with iron points, their hands to be pierced with red-hot nails, and the skin to be torn from their heads, on which were placed burning coals. Finding that he could not conquer them, he condemned them to be exposed to wild beasts.
Q. How did they die?
A. The day of the show or spectacle a bear and a lioness of enormous size were loosed against them. The roaring of the beasts made the very spectators tremble, but the two beasts gently approached the martyrs, and crouching down before them, licked their feet. The tyrant, being confounded, ordered their heads to be struck off. The Christians carried away the bodies during the night and interred them.
Q. What was the martyrdom of St. Agnes and St. Eulalia?
A. Whilst the blood of the martyrs was flowing in the east, it also be dewed the provinces of the west. Two young virgins of illustrious birth, and heiresses to large fortunes, obtained a glorious victory. The first was St. Agnes, who was scarcely thirteen. The governor of Rome having demanded her in marriage for his son, she replied that she was already promised to a heavenly spouse. By this it was known she was a Christian; and, without being at all moved by the appalling sight of the instruments of death, she tranquilly received the blow a midst the tears of the spectators.
Q. Who was St. Eulalia?
A. St. Eulalia was born at Merida in Spain. Aged about thirteen, she presented herself of her own accord before Dacian, the governor of the province, and reproached him for the impiety that made him wish to destroy the true religion. Dacian caused her to be torn in the side with red-hot hooks. The saint counted her wounds and said tranquilly, " They write your name upon me, Lord; they engrave your victories upon my body. How I love to read such writing!" She was burnt alive.
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