While people in the US are today worked up about elections, etc., we might take a moment to pause and peruse the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum and put our lives in perspective.
From today’s entries.
1. Smyrnae in Asia, passio sancti Germanici, martyris Philadelphiae, qui, tempore Marci Antonini et Lucii Aurelii imperatorum, sancti Polycarpi discipulus fuit, quem in martyrio praecessit, cum, primaevae aetatis venustate florente a iudice damnatus, Dei virtute metum corporeae suae fragilitatis excludens bestiam ipsi paratam sponte provocavit.
2. Apud Spoletum in Umbria, sancti Pontiani, martyris, qui, tempore Antonini imperatoris, pro Christo vehementissime virgis caesus esse traditur, tandem gladio transfossus.
