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 Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: RULE-FEBRUARY 8/MARTYROLOGY-FEBRUARY 9 |
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The reading appointed from the Rule of St. Benedict for
this day:
CHAPTER VII
Of Humility
(cont.)
The eleventh degree of humility is, that, when a monk speaketh, he speak
gently and without laughter, humbly and with gravity, with few and sensible
words, and that he be not loud of voice, as it is written: "The wise man is
known by the fewness of his words."
Martyrology-February 9th
Roman Martyrology-February 9th-on this date
in various years-
St. Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, confessor and doctor of the Church.
His birthday was mentioned on the 28th of January.
At Alexandria, in the reign of Decius, the birthday of St. Apollonia,
virgin, who had all her teeth broken out by the persecutors; then, having
constructed and lighted a pyre, they threatened to burn her alive unless she
uttered with them certain ímpious words. Deliberating a while within
herself, she suddenly slipped from their grasp, and prompted by the greater fire
of the Holy Ghost within her, she rushed voluntarily into the fire which they
had prepared. Those responsible for her death were struck with terror at
the sight of a woman who was more willing to die than they to kill her.
At Rome, the passion of the holy martyrs Alexander and thirty-eight
others crowned with him.
In the village of Lamelum in Africa, the holy martyrs Primus and Donatus,
deacons, who were killed by the Donatists as they guarded the altar in the
church.
At Solum in Cyprus, the holy martyrs Ammonius and Alexander.
At Antioch, under Emperor Valerian, St. Nicephorus, martyr, who was
beheaded and thus received the crown of martyrdom.
In the monastery of Fontanelle in France, St. Ansbert, bishop of
Rouen.
At Canossa in Apulia, St. Sabinus, bishop and confessor.
Blessed Pope Gregory tells that he was endowed with the spirit of prophecy and
the power of miracles. After he had become blind, when a cup of poison was
offered to him by a servant who was bribed, he knew it by divine instinct.
He, however, declared that God would punish the one who had bribed the servant,
and, making the sign of the cross, he drank the poison without anxiety and
without harmful effect.
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors,
and holy virgins.
R. Thanks be to God. |
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