Subj : September 15th - Martyrs of Adrianopolis
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From : rich
Date : Sat Sep 14 2019 09:24:46

From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

September 15th - Martyrs of Adrianopolis

At Adrianopolis in Thrace, the holy martyrs Maximus, Theodore, and
Asclepiodotus, who were crowned under Emperor Maximian.

During the persecution Tiris, the governor of Thrace, went around the
city subject to him and persecuted those believing in Christ. He
summoned Maximus and Asklepiodote before him and demanded they abandon
the Christian Faith. When the martyrs refused, he ordered that they be
beaten.

Then a certain pious man named Theodotus, began to reproach the
governor for his inhumanity and cruelty. They seized him also, and
hanging him on a tree, they tortured him with iron hooks. After this,
they threw the three martyrs into prison. Tiris traveled for two weeks
more and took the holy martyrs along with him.

In the city of Adrianopolis he put them to still greater tortures,
commanding that their bodies be scorched with white-hot plates. In the
midst of their suffering they heard a Voice from Heaven encouraging
them to persevere. After several days of torture they threw the
martyrs to be eaten by wild beasts in the circus, but instead the
she-bear released upon Sts Maximus and Theodotus began to cuddle up to
them.

St. Asklepiodote was tied to a bull, but she seemed to be rooted to
the spot, and did not budge. Tiris resumed the journey and stopped in
the village of Saltis before reaching the city of Philippopolis. Again
he urged the martyrs to renounce Christ. When they refused, he ordered
them to be beheaded.

God's wrath overtook him when a bolt of lightning struck him as he sat
upon the judgment seat.

Saint Quote:
"The heart can change several times in one moment--to good or evil, to
faith or unbelief, to simplicity or cunning, to love or hatred, to
benevolence or envy, to generosity or avarice, to chastity or
fornication. O, what inconstancy! O, how many dangers! O, how sober
and watchful we must be!"
--St. John of Kronstadt.

Bible Quote:
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely,
and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,
looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith"=C2  (Heb
12,1-2).


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Today is also the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

What words can ever retrace the unwritten anguish that rent
the sacred heart of Mary as she looked upon her Divine Son
hanging on the cross?! Every wound in Jesus' body was also a
wound in the heart of Mary: every fiber, every nerve
throbbing in agony, every pang He suffered re-echoed in her
heart. She endured by her compassion a share in all the
anguish of His Passion.

Why did Mary suffer all this?=C2  That she might be our Mother,
the Mother of mankind. She who brought forth her Divine
Son without a pang suffered many a piercing pang when from
the cross her dying Son commended to her the sinful sons of
men. That was indeed a motherhood of sorrow she suffered
for our sins: for mine.

--- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4)

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