SUNDAY AWODI REST IN PEACE
SUNDAY AWODI REST IN PEACE In the quietness of the hour When the birds of dawn slumbered In the stillness of the night When the world was in darkness…
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Tribute to My Grandmother Who Died This Morning
Tribute to My Grandmother Who Died Today Death do not boast Mama is not gone Her spirit is in our hearts Are prayers are the bracelets of our wrists …
Giordano Bruno
Bruno (Giordano, philosopher of an independent and speculative mind. He was burned at Rome in 1600 by the Inquisition on the charges of heresy and ap…
John Bradford
Bradford (John, a martyr of the Reformation),—1555. " Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord this night: if…
Robert Bruce
Bruce (Robert, distinguished divine of the Scottish Church), about 1554-1631. " Now God be with you, my dear children; I have breakfasted with y…
Michael Angelo Buonarotti
Buonarotti (Michael Angelo), 1474-1564. " My soul I resign to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my relations; admonishing…
Godliness or Death
Theodora, a beautiful young lady of Antioch, on refusing to sacrifice to the Roman idols, was condemned to the stews, that her virtue might be sacrif…
Saints will Rather Die
Gallus, the emperor, having concluded his wars, a plague broke out in the empire: sacrifices to the pagan deities were ordered by the emperor, and pe…
Bishop of Gortyna
Cyril, bishop of Gortyna, was seized by order of Lucius, the governor of that place, who, nevertheless, exhorted him to obey the imperial mandate, pe…
A Remarkable Persecution
Agatha, a Sicilian lady, was not more remarkable for her personal and acquired endowments, than her piety; her beauty was such, that Quintian, govern…
Tortures of the Saints
Trypho and Respicius, two eminent men, were seized as Christians, and imprisoned at Nice. Their feet were pierced with nails; they were dragged throu…
Great Origen
Origen, the celebrated presbyter and catechist of Alexandria, at the age of sixty-four, was seized, thrown into a loathsome prison, laden with fetter…
Butchered Babylas
Babylas, a Christian of a liberal education, became bishop of Antioch, A.D. 237, on the demise of Zebinus. He acted with inimitable zeal, and governe…
Distinct Denisa
Denisa, a young woman of only sixteen years of age, who beheld this terrible judgment, suddenly exclaimed, "O unhappy wretch, why would you buy …
Saved and Martyred
Lucian and Marcian, two wicked pagans, though skilful magicians, becoming converts to Christianity, to make amends for their former errors, lived the…
Soldiers Buried in a Hole
In the year of our Lord 251, the emperor Decius having erected a pagan temple at Ephesus, he commanded all who were in that city to sacrifice to the …
Pious Nichomachus
Nichomachus, being brought before the proconsul as a Christian, was ordered to sacrifice to the pagan idols. Nichomachus replied, "I cannot pay …
Optimus the Tyrant
Julian , a native of Cilicia, as we are informed by St. Chrysostom, was seized upon for being a Christian. He was put into a leather bag, together wi…
Danger of Decius
This was occasioned partly by the hatred he bore to his predecessor Philip, who was deemed a Christian and was partly by his jealousy concerning the …
Merciless Maximinus
A.D. 235, was in the time of Maximinus. In Cappadocia, the president, Seremianus, did all he could to exterminate the Christians from that province. …