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There is a scarcity of historical evidence regarding the early bishops of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienne.For example, Saint Verus has been documented as the bishop of Vienne in the year 314, but it remains unclear whether he may have had the same name as an earlier Verus who is listed as the fourth bishop in the line of succession of bishops of Vienne.
Zechariah and St. John the Baptist. A medieval Georgian fresco from the Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem. According to the Gospel of Luke, during the reign of king Herod, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the course of Abia, whose wife Elizabeth was also of the priestly family of Aaron.
Circa 1901, a destitute 60-year-old man known only as Frenchy lived in adjacent to St. Mary's Cemetery, originally in a hand-dug cave in the woods and later in a stable situated on the fenceline. He was possibly a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and he decorated his coat with bits of metal he found discarded on the grounds. Frenchy spent ...
Their feast or commemoration was included on that date in the General Roman Calendar from the 9th century to 1969, when they were excluded because nothing is known with certainty about them except their names, their place of burial (the cemetery Ad Nymphas on the Via Cornelia), and the day of their burial (19 or 20 January). [6]
Ten thousand martyrs may refer to the ten thousand martyred Fathers in the Deserts and caves of Scete by Theophilus of Alexandria or to the ten thousand martyrs of Mount Ararat who were, according to a medieval legend, Roman soldiers who, led by Saint Acacius, converted to Christianity and were crucified on Mount Ararat by order of the Roman emperor.
Father Joseph J. Cassidy of St. John's Catholic Church in Westminster, Maryland, was named Caughy's successor on February 18, 1910. [29] He took up his position on March 29. [30] With Saint Stephen Martyr still $13,800 in debt ($451,260 in 2023 dollars), he used fairs to help retire the debt as swiftly as possible.
St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr's Church, Manhattan The Church of St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr is home to the oldest Polish Roman Catholic parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York , It is located at 101 East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City .
St. Edward the Martyr Orthodox Church is a True Orthodox Church in Brookwood, Surrey, England.. The monastic Saint Edward Brotherhood was established at Brookwood Cemetery in 1982 to prepare and care for a new church in a fitting grade I landscape [1] in which the relics of Saint Edward the Martyr, the king of England who was murdered in 978 and who was succeeded by force by Ethelred the ...