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ST SUSANNA OF ROME, VIRGIN AND MARTYR - 11 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 11th August

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SAINT SUSANNA OF ROME, VIRGIN AND MARTYR 

Saint Susanna was nobly born in Rome, and is said to have been niece to Pope Caius. Having made a vow of virginity, she refused to marry; on which account she was impeached as a Christian, and suffered with heroic constancy a cruel martyrdom. 

SHE SUFFERED WITH HEROIC CONSTANCY

No genuine acts of her life are now extant; but she is commemorated in many ancient Martyrologies. Saint Susanna suffered towards the beginning of Diocletian’s reign, about the year 295.   

Sufferings were to the martyrs the most distinguishing mercy, extraordinary graces, and sources of the greatest crowns and glory. 

AFFLICTIONS

All afflictions which God sends are in like manner the greatest mercies and blessings; they are the most precious talents to be improved by us to the increasing of our love and affection to God, and the exercise of the most heroic virtues of self-denial, patience, humility, resignation, and penance. They are also most useful and necessary to bring us to the knowledge of ourselves and our Creator, which we are too apt to forget without them. 

A PATIENT RESIGNATION TO THE DIVINE WILL

Wherefore whatever crosses or calamities befall us, we must be prepared to bear them with a patient resignation to the divine will; we ought to learn from the martyrs to comfort ourselves, and to rejoice in them, as the greatest blessings. 

WE MAKE THE MOST PRECIOUS MERCIES OUR CURSE!

How base is our cowardice, and how criminal our folly, if, by neglecting to improve these advantageous talents of sickness, losses, and other afflictions, we make the most precious mercies our heaviest curse! 

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Susanna may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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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