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SS. GERVASIUS AND PROTASIUS, MARTYRS - 19 JUNE

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 19th of June   WELCOME! SAINTS GERVASIUS AND PROTASIUS, MARTYRS  [Saints Gervase and Protase.] Saint Ambrose calls these saints the protomartyrs of Milan. They seem to have suffered in the first persecution under Nero, or at latest under Domitian, and are said to have been the sons of SS. Vitalis and Valeria, both martyrs, the first at Ravenna, the second at Milan. This latter city was the place which SS. Gervasius and Protasius rendered illustrious by their glorious martyrdom and miracles.  THEY WERE TWIN BROTHERS St Ambrose assures us, that the divine grace prepared them a long time for their crown by the good example which they gave, and by the constancy with which they withstood the corruption of the world. He adds they were beheaded for the faith. They are said to have been twin brothers.    VISIBLE PROTECTORS OF THE CHURCH The faithful at Milan, in the fourth age, had lost the remembrance of the...