ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 19th of November
SAINT PONTIAN, POPE AND MARTYR
The Liberian Calendar informs us that this pope sat five years from the death of St Urban, in 230, the church then enjoying peace in the reign of Alexander Severus.
A BLOODY PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS
But Maximinus, who, by contriving the assassination of the best of the Roman emperors, in May, 235, opened to himself a way to the imperial throne, began his reign by raising a bloody persecution. He was by birth a barbarian, a native of Thrace, and of a gigantic stature: for his cruelty towards all men he is surnamed Busiris, Typhon, and Phalaris, and was a monster of gluttony.
THE HARDSHIPS OF HIS EXILE
Saint Pontian was banished by him in the beginning of his reign into the isle of Sardinia, where he died the same year, if not by the sword, at least by the hardships of his exile and the unhealthfulness of the air.
Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints
PRAYER:
May the intercession of Saint Pontian commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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