30th JULY: ST JULITTA
~thread~
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
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
4. that by the least impious word I should offend God who made me.
If you take from me a little portion of this earth, I shall gain heaven for it.”
The judge was extremely exasperated at her undaunted resolution, and condemned the servant of Christ to the flames. #history
5. Upon hearing this sentence, a kind of heavenly joy and most amiable cheerfulness flushed her countenance, which she could not refrain from expressing by continual thanksgiving to God to her last breath.
She exhorted the Christians in the most moving manner to constancy and
6. the Pagans were amazed to see a lady of her rank, age, and fortune, possessed of all the advantages to please the world, and yet in a condition to enjoy all that is in it most flattering, to contemn all this, and life itself, with such an heroic constancy. #NotOfThisWorld
7. When all things were ready for the execution, Julitta laid herself cheerfully upon the pile, and there expired, being, as it seems, stifled by the smoke; for the flame rising in was afterwards interred in the porch of the
#CatholicTwitter #EarlyChurch #martyrs #Diocletian
8. principal church in the city; and St Basil wrote a homily about St Julitta the year 375. (Excerpts from Butler's "Lives of the Saints")
7 b) Sorry, it should say,
"...stifled by the smoke; for the flame rising in an arched vault round her body, did not touch it, and the Christians took it up entire. It was afterwards interred in the porch of the principal church" #correction #locallockdown #lockdown #books
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.