Subj : =?UTF-8?Q?April_8th_=2D_St=2E_=C3=86desius=2C_Martyr?= To : All From : rich Date : Sun Apr 07 2019 08:58:08 From: rich April 8th - St. =C3=86desius, Martyr Venerated in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast 8 April (Western calendar) 2 April (Eastern calendar)[2] HE was brother to St. Apian, who received his crown at C=C3=A6sarea, on the 2nd of April, and a native of Lycia, had been a professed philosopher, and continued to wear the cloak after his conversion to the faith. He was long a scholar of St. Pamphilus at C=C3=A6sarea. In the persecution of Galerius Maximianus he often confessed his faith before magistrates, had sanctified several dungeons, and been condemned to the mines in Palestine. Being released from thence, he went into Egypt, but there found the persecution more violent than in Palestine itself, under Hierocles, the most barbarous prefect of Egypt, for Maximinus Daia, C=C3=A6sar. This governor had also employed his pen against the faith, presuming to put the sorceries of Apollonius of Tyana upon a level with the miracles of Christ, whom Eusebius confuted by a book entitled, Against Hierocles. =C3=86desius being at Alexandria, and observing how outrageously the judge proceeded against the Christians, by tormenting brave men, and delivering women of singular piety, and even virgins, to the infamous purchasers of slaves, he boldly presented himself before this savage monster, rather than a man, and reproached him with his crying inhumanity, especially in exposing holy virgins to lewdness. He endured courageously the scourge, and the greatest torments which the rage of such a tyrant was capable of inventing, and was at length cast into the sea, in 306, after the same manner as his brother, who obtained his crown a little while before, as the Chaldaic acts expressly inform us, though Henschenius is of the contrary opinion. See Eusebius on the martyrs of Palestine, ch. 5, and the martyr's Chaldaic acts in Assemani, t. 2. p. 195. Saint Quote: "God wishes that there should be poor in this world, so that the rich may atone for their sins" --St. Augustine (Doctor, 354-430) - "Instructions On Christian Morality" Bible Quotes: "And God provideth for him that sheweth favour: he remembereth him afterwards, and in the time of his fall he shall find a sure stay" (Ecclesiasticus 3:) "For the poor you have always with you"=C2 (Matt 26:11) <><><><> The story =C2 =C2 He is the One who brought us out of slavery into freedom, out= of darkness into light, out of death into life, out of tyranny into an eternal kingdom; who made us a new priesthood, a people chosen to be his own for ever. He is the Passover that is our salvation. It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonored in the prophets. =C2 =C2 It is he who was made man of the Virgin, he who was hung on t= he tree; it is he who was buried in the earth, raised from the dead, and taken up to the heights of heaven. He is the mute lamb, the slain lamb, the lamb born of Mary, the fair ewe. He was seized from the flock, dragged off to be slaughtered, sacrificed in the evening, and buried at night. On the tree no bone of his was broken; in the earth his body knew no decay. He is the One who rose from the dead, and who raised us from the depths of the tomb. --Melito of Sardis --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .