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From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

August 30th =E2=80=93 SS. Felix and Adauctus

St. Felix was a holy priest in Rome, no less happy in his life and
virtue than in his name. Being apprehended in the beginning of
Diocletian's persecution, he was put to the torture, which he suffered
with constancy, and was condemned to lose his head.  As he was going
to execution he was met by a stranger, who, being a Christian, was so
moved at the sight of the martyr and the glory to which he was
hastening that he cried out aloud, "I confess the same law which this
man professes; I confess the same Jesus Christ; and I also will lay
down my life in His cause The magistrates hearing this, caused him
forthwith to be seized, and the martyrs -were both beheaded together.
The name of this stranger not being known, he was called by Christians
Adauctus, i.e. the one added, because he was joined to Felix in
martyrdom.

  This story, with sundry legendary embellishments, is derived from an
inscription of Pope St. Damasus, which ran: "O how truly and rightly
named Felix, happy, you who, with faith untouched and despising the
prince of this world, have confessed Christ and sought the heavenly
kingdom.  Know ye also, brethren, the truly precious faith by which
Adauctus too hastened, a victor, to Heaven."  The priest Verus, at the
command of his ruler Damasus, restored the tomb, adorning the
thresholds of the saints."  SS. Felix and Adauctus were buried in the
cemetery of Commodilla on the Ostian Way, where a church built over
their tomb was uncovered in 1905.

  As Felix and Adauctus, in cemetery of Commodilla on the Ostian Way"
are registered in the Depositio martyrum of 354, we have a solid
guarantee for their early cultus, which is further confirmed by the
Leonine sacramentary and many other records. See the Analecta
Bollandiana, vol. xvi (1897), pp. 17-43, and the discussions by de
Rossi, Wilpert, Marucchi, Bonavenia, etc., to which Delehaye gives
references in CMH., pp. 476-478. The passio is in the Acta Sanctorum,
August, vol. vi.


Saint Quote:
Let the sufferings of your Divine Redeemer be deeply impressed on your
heart, and be assured that He, the Good Shepherd, will conduct you as
a cherished lamb to His divine fold. And what is the fold of this
amiable Shepherd? It is the bosom of His heavenly Father.
--St. Paul of the Cross

Bible Quote
As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are
the fruit of honour and riches. 24 I am the mother of fair love, and
of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. 25 In me is all grace of
the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.
(Sir 24:23-25) DRB


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Crystalline brilliance of light so endowed,
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Love's own white fire, a fire that heals,
The souls She will come to when answering appeals.
The stars of divinity set in Her crown,
Send shimmering stardust to earthly abounds;
Soft velvet whispers that need no translation,
To carry Her message to souls of all nations.
This is the aura that streams from above,
Sent forth from the heavens and the Father of love.
Soft velvet whispers that need no translation,
To carry Her message to souls of all nations.
This is the aura that streams from above,
Sent forth from the heavens and the Father of love
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