SS. THEA AND MEURIS, MARTYRS

SS. THEA AND MEURIS, MARTYRS - 19 DECEMBER

SAINTS THEA AND MEURIS, MARTYRS

[A. D. 307] Saints Meuris and Thea, two holy women at Gaza in Palestine, when the persecution of Christians raged in that city under the successors of Diocletian, bore up bravely against all the cruelty of men, and malice of the devil, and triumphed over both to the last moment.

A DREADFUL VARIETY OF TORMENTS

Meuris died under the hands of the persecutors: but Thea languished some time after she had passed through a dreadful variety of exquisite torments, as we learn from the author of the life of St Porphyrius of Gaza, written about the close of the fourth century.

THEIR RELICS

Their relics were deposited in a church which bore the name of St Timothy.

Can we call to mind the fervour of the saints in labouring and suffering cheerfully for God, and not feel a holy ardour glow in our own breasts, and our souls strongly affected with their heroic sentiments of virtue?

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyrs Thea and Meuris confessed the faith, may experience their goodness as they intercede for us with you. 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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