The Return of the Child Jesus from Egypt.
At Nicomedia, the birthday of Blessed Lucian, priest and martyr, of the Church of Antioch. He won unusually great renown for his doctrine and eloquence, and he suffered for confessing Christ in the persecution of Maximian Galerius. He was buried at Helenopolis in Bithynia. St. John Chrysostom highly praised him.
At Antioch, St. Cletus, deacon, who for his glorious confession of faith was tortured seven times. He was incarcerated for a long time and at last was beheaded, thus fulfilling his martyrdom.
In the city of Heracles, the holy martyrs Felix and Januarius.
On the same day, the martyr St. Julian.
In Denmark, St. Canute, king and martyr.
At Pavia (in Italy), St. Crispin, bishop and confessor.
In Dacia, St. Nicetas, bishop, who by preaching the Gospel made civilized and humane some nations that before were savage and barbarous.
In Egypt, Blessed Theodore, monk, who grew in holiness in the time of Constantine the Great. St. Athanasius mentions him in his life of St. Anthony.
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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