ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 18th of April WELCOME! SAINTS ELEUTHERIUS AND ANTHIA, MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saints Eleutherius and Anthia. The Roman Martyrology states: "At Messina, the birthday of the holy martyrs, Eleutherius, bishop of Illyricum, and Anthia, his mother. Illustrious by his holiness of life and his power of working miracles, he was, in the reign of Adrian, laid on a bed of red-hot iron, on a gridiron, in a pan filled with boiling oil, pitch and resin; he was cast to the lions, but, remaining unhurt, he finally had his throat pierced with a sword. His mother suffered a similar punishment." With them suffered Paternius, Calocerus, Febus, Procelus, Apollonius, Fortunatus, Crispinus, Expeditus, Mappalicus, Victorinus and Gagus, who were thrown to the beasts in the arena . (II. 528.) (Stadler, vol. 2, 1861, p. 27) PRAYER: Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyrs Eleutherius...