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20th SEPTEMBER: ST EUSTACHIUS & COMPANIONS, MARTYRS

1. St Eustachius [one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers] was a martyr under the Emperor Hadrian, in the year 188. His feast is on 20 September; his emblems: a crucifix, a stag, an oven.
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2. Eustachius (before baptism, Placidus), a Roman general under Trajan, while still a heathen, saw a stag coming towards him, with a crucifix between its horns; he heard a voice telling him that he was to suffer much for Christ’s sake.

He received baptism, together with his
3. wife Trajana (after baptism Theopista) and his sons, Agapius and Theopistus. The place of the vision is said to have been Guadagnolo, between Tibur and Praeneste (Tivoli and Palestrina), in the vicinity of Rome.

For refusing to sacrifice to the idols after a victory,
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9th JULY: ST AUGUSTINE ZHAO RONG, PRIEST AND MARTYR

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1. In 1785, the missionary of China (St) Gabriel Taurin Dufresse was arrested by pagan officials. His transfer to Peking (Beijing) with other captured missionaries
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2. was assigned to a squad of soldiers, one of whom was a young man named Zhao.

Moved by the missionaries’ patience and humble acceptance of God’s will, Zhao felt a deep compassion for them. Soon afterward, he enrolled as a catechumen and received baptism,
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3. taking the name Augustine. He subsequently entered the priesthood.

Father Augustine travelled from one village to another, preaching the Gospel, the ten commandments, the seven deadly sins, the sacraments, and the Passion of Christ. He concluded
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1. Immaculate Virgin, conceived without sin, you directed every movement of your most pure Heart toward God and were always obedient to His Divine Will.

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2. Obtain for me the grace to hate sin with all my heart and to learn from you to live in perfect resignation to the Will of God.
3. Mary, I admire that deep humility which troubled your blessed Heart at the message of the Angel Gabriel when he announced that you had been chosen to be the Mother of the Son of the most high God. You considered yourself only God’s lowly handmaid.
#humility #Christianity
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