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The Second Day of October

Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels. A totum duplex feast.

At Rome, the suffering of St. Modestus of Sardinia, deacon and martyr. He was tortured on the rack and then burned alive by the Emperor Diocletian. His sacred body was later removed to Benevento and buried in a church named after him..

In the region of Arras, the suffering of St. Leger, Bishop of Autun. Subjected to various injuries and tortures for upholding the truth, he was slain by Ebroin, major-domo of Theodoric. A memory.

At Nicomedia, St. Eleutherius, soldier and martyr, together with innumerable others. When Diocletian's palace was destroyed by fire, they were falsely accused of this deed and at the command of the same cruel Emperor were brutally slain in groups. Some of them were beheaded, some were burned alive, others Were cast into the sea. But the most prominent of them, Eleutherius, was tortured for a long time. He became stronger through the torments as gold is tried in the fire, and completed his victory by martyrdom.

At Antioch, the holy martyrs Primus, Cyril, and Secundarius.

On the same day, St. Gerinus, martyr. He was the brother of St. Leger, Bishop of Autun, and, by order of the same Ebroin, he was stoned to death.

At Constantinople, St. Theophilus, monk. He was most inhumanly flogged by Leo the Isaurian for defending the (veneration of) holy images and was driven into exile where he died.

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

R. Thanks be to God.

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