The Festival of All Saints. Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon temple "in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and in honor of the holy martyrs," and he decreed that every year this feast should be fittingly and generally observed throughout Rome. A somewhat similar feast was already observed in various ways in other dioceses; hence Gregory IV decreed that the feast, now extended to include all saints, should be forever solemnly celebrated in the Universal Church on the first day of November. A totum duplex feast of the first class with a solemn octave.
In Persia, the holy martyrs John, bishop, and James, priest, under King Sapor.
At Terracina in Campania, the birthday of St. Caesarius, deacon. He was harshly treated in prison for many days; afterward, with St. Julian, priest, he was placed in a sack and cast into the sea.
In the town of Dijon, the priest St. Benignus. He was sent into Gaul by St. Polycarp to preach the Gospel. Later, in the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, he was repeatedly subjected to the most inhuman tortures by the judge Terence. Finally, it was ordered that his neck be beaten with an iron bar and his body pierced with a spear.
At Damascus, the suffering of SS. Caesarius, Dacius, and five others.
On the same day, the servant-girl St. Mary. In the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, she was accused of professing the Christian religion. Accordingly, she was severely whipped, stretched on the rack, and mangled with iron hooks. In this manner, she completed her martyrdom.
At Tarsus in Cilicia, SS. Cyrenia and Juliana, martyrs, in the time of the Emperor Maximian.
In Auvergne in Gaul, St. Austremonius, who was the first bishop of that region.
At Paris, the death of St. Marcellus, bishop.
At Bayeaux in Gaul, St. Vigor, bishop, in the time of Childebert, King of the Franks.
At Angers in Gaul, the death of St. Licinius, bishop, a holy old man. At Tivoli, St. Severinus, monk. At Larchant in north central Gaul, St. Mathurin, confessor.
V. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct, but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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