E The nineteenth Day.
AT Rome in the way called Cornelia, of the holy Martyrs Marius, and Martha
The Roman martyrologe according to the reformed calendar faithfully translated out of Latin into English, by G.K. of the Society of Iesus.
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- The Roman martyrologe according to the reformed calendar faithfully translated out of Latin into English, by G.K. of the Society of Iesus.
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his wyfe, and of their children Audisax, & Abachum Noble Persians, who in the time of Claudius the Emperour, came to Rome for deuotion, and there being beaten with cudgels, racked, tormented by fyre, torne with iron hookes, and their hands cut off, Martha was at last killed in the place called Nimpha, and the others beheaded, and their bodyes burnt. At Smirna, the birth-day of Blessed Germanic••s Martyr, who in the flower of his youth, vnder Marcus Antoni∣nus, and Lucius Aurelius, condemned to the beasts, by the force of Gods grace, without all feare, prouoked of his owne accord the beast prepared to deuoure him; & so torne and ground with his teeth, deserued to be incorporated into the true bread of Life Christ Iesus, for whome he dyed. In Affrica of the holy Martyrs Paulus, Gerontius, Ianua∣rius, Saturninus, Successus, Iulius, Catus, Pia and Germana. At Spoletum the passion of S. Pon∣tianus Martyr, who in the tyme of Antoni∣nus the Emperour, after he had beene cruel∣ly whipped, by commandemēt of Fabianus Iudge, was compelled to walke vpon hoat burning coles barefoote; wherwith recea∣uing no harme, was then tormented vpon the racke called Equuleus, and with Iron hookes; And after all this being cast into
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pryson, where he was comforted by an Angell; throwne also vnto the Lyons, and tormented with boyling lead, was finally beheaded. At a Lodi of S. Bassianus Bishop and Confessour, who togeather with S. Ambrose valiantly resisted the Heretikes.
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