ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 4th of December WELCOME! SAINT MARUTHAS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR Saint Maruthas was an illustrious father of the Syriac church about the end of the fourth century; and was bishop of Tagrit, in Mesopotamia, at that time subject to the Oriental empire, though near the borders of Persia. He compiled the Acts of the martyrs who suffered in that kingdom, during the forty years of Sapor’s persecution, from 340 to 380, part of which valuable collection has been recovered and published by Stephen Assemani, in 1748. HE WROTE SEVERAL HYMNS IN PRAISE OF THE MARTYRS St Maruthas wrote several hymns in praise of the martyrs, which together with others of St Ephrem, are inserted in the Chaldaic divine office, and are sung by the Maronites , Jacobites, and Nestorians, who use that tongue in the church office. St Maruthas gathered the relics of many Persian martyrs, and distributed them over the Roman em...