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    From: rich <richarra@gmail.com>

    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)


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    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

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