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ST ANTHONY PRIMALDI AND COMPANIONS, MARTYTRS - 14 AUGUST

 

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Saints celebrated on the 14th of August

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SAINT ANTHONY PRIMALDI AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS

Saint Antonius [Anthony] Primaldi, martyr at Otranto in southern Italy, was a simple craftsman in this city, but distinguished by his piety and zeal for the Christian religion. 

PIETY AND LOVE OF CHRIST

He was already of an advanced age when the Turks under Mohammed II besieged and conquered the city and took the inhabitants prisoner. 

THEY WERE MARTYRED BECAUSE THEY WERE FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS, LOYAL TO OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

When the victor forced them to choose between Islam or death, Saint Anthony stepped forward and confessed in the name of all to be a follower of Our Lord Jesus Christ and encouraged his fellow believers to persevere in their confession. 

The result was that all of them, 800 in number, were mowed down. This happened on August 14, 1480. 

THEIR BODIES WERE BURIED 

When the Duke Alphons of Calabria recovered Otranto in the following year, he arranged for the bodies of the saintly martyrs to be buried in a chapel of the Metropolitan Church of this city, and since many miracles occurred in the course of time at the intercession of St Anthony and his companions, Clement XVI allowed their public veneration in 1771. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858)

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyrs Saint Anthony and Companions 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.

Sources of these articles (in the original German): books.google.co.uk, de-academic.com, zeno.org, openlibrary.org

[These martyrs were beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 and canonised by Pope Francis in 2013]

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