St. Alphonsus Maria Liguori, founder of the Congregation of our Most Holy Redeemer, bishop of Sant' Agata dei Goti, confessor and Doctor of the Church, who died in the Lord on August 1. A duplex feast.
At Rome, in the cemetery of St. Callistus, the birthday of St. Stephen I, pope and martyr. In the persecution of Valerian, he was celebrating Mass when the soldiers arrived to arrest him. He remained at the altar, intrepid and unmoved, and finished the Sacred Mysteries he had begun. He was beheaded while he was sitting on his throne. A memory.
At Nicaca in Bithynia, the suffering of St. Theodota and her three sons. Nicetius the consul of Bithynia, seeing that Evodius the eldest confidently confessed Christ, ordered him to be beaten with clubs; then he commanded that the mother and all her sons should be burned alive.
In Africa, St. Rutilius, martyr. To escape persecution, he often fled from one place to another and sometimes even bought himself out of danger. He was unexpectedly arrested and brought to the governor. He was subjected to many tortures and finally, being delivered to the flames, he received the crown of an admirable martyrdom.
At Padua, St. Maximus, bishop of that city, who, famed for his miracles, died a blessed death.
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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