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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINT AUDIFAX, MARTYR - 19 JANUARY Saint Audifax (commemorated on January 19), a martyr, was son of  Saint Marius and  Saint Martha and brother of Saint Abachum , with whom he is also commemorated in the breviary.  Because they visited and cared for fellow Christians in prison, Marius, Abachum and Audifax were captured in Ostia and beheaded after painful and repeated torture, and after their hands had been chopped off. According to the sources, Martha (who is commemorated on January 11 and 16 in some calendars) was thrown into a well.  Although their bodies were burned, the Christians appear to have managed to save several of their relics. Such are shown and venerated in various places: in Rome, where they were found in 1590, and in Seligenstadt, Soissons (where the Calvinists desecrated them), Gemblour (Gemblacum) , Cortryk (Cortraeum), and Cremona. The Martha is at Razzi on...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 19th of January WELCOME! SAINTS MARIS, MARTHA, AUDIFAX, AND ABACHUM (MARTYRS OF THE VIA CORNELIA) Maris [Marius], a nobleman of Persia, with his wife Martha, and two sons,  Audifax and Abachum , being converted to the faith, distributed his fortune among the poor, as the primitive Christians did at Jerusalem, and came to Rome to visit the tombs of the apostles.  The emperor Aurelian then persecuted the church, and by his order a great number of Christians were shut up in the amphitheater, and shot to death with arrows, and their bodies burnt.  DURING THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS Our saints gathered and buried their ashes with respect; for which they were apprehended, and after many torments under the governor Marcianus, Maris and his two sons were beheaded; and Martha drowned, thirteen miles from Rome, at a place now called Santa Ninfa. Their relics were found at Rome in 1590.  They are mentioned with...