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30th JULY: ST JULITTA
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1. Emperor Diocletian, by the first edicts which he issued out against the Christians in 303, declared them infamous, and debarred from all protection of the laws, and from all the privileges of citizens. #Christians #RomanEmpire #JesusChrist
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1. Emperor Diocletian, by the first edicts which he issued out against the Christians in 303, declared them infamous, and debarred from all protection of the laws, and from all the privileges of citizens. #Christians #RomanEmpire #JesusChrist
2. The tyrant hoped to see their very name extinguished; but he was not aware that this divine religion then triumphs when its adherents seem to be overcome by death, and that by it human weakness is made victorious over the power of death.
#Christianity #Bible #GospelOfTheDay
#Christianity #Bible #GospelOfTheDay
3. St Julitta is an instance. She was a rich lady of Caesarea,in Cappadocia, and was charged with being a #Christian. The judge commanded her to offer sacrifice to the idols; but she courageously made him this answer:“May rather my body be cut in pieces, rather than
#StJulitta
#StJulitta
27th JULY: ST PANTALEON
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1. St Pantaleon was physician to the Emperor Galerius Maximianus, and a #Christian, but fell by a temptation - for bad example, if not shunned, insensibly weakens, and at length destroys the strongest virtue.
#StPantaleon #FourteenHolyHelpers
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1. St Pantaleon was physician to the Emperor Galerius Maximianus, and a #Christian, but fell by a temptation - for bad example, if not shunned, insensibly weakens, and at length destroys the strongest virtue.
#StPantaleon #FourteenHolyHelpers
2. Pantaleon being perpetually obsessed by it in an impious idolatrous court, and deceived by often hearing the false maxims of the world applauded, was unhappily seduced into an apostacy. But a zealous Christian called Hermolaus, by his prudent admonitions awakened his
3. conscience to a sense of his guilt, and brought him again into the fold of the Church.
When Diocletian’s bloody persecution broke out at Nicomedia in 303, he distributed all his possessions among the poor. Not long after this action he was taken up,
#Diocletian #persecution
When Diocletian’s bloody persecution broke out at Nicomedia in 303, he distributed all his possessions among the poor. Not long after this action he was taken up,
#Diocletian #persecution
