ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER Saints celebrated on the 11th of September WELCOME! SAINTS PROTUS AND HYACINTH, MARTYRS The saints whose victory the church commemorates on this day are honoured among the most illustrious martyrs that ennobled Rome with their blood, when the emperors of the world attempted, with the whole weight of their power, to crush the little flock of Christ. Their epitaph, among the works of Pope Damasus, calls them brothers, and informs us that Hyacinthus sustained the first conflict, but that Protus obtained his crown before him. THEY WERE BROTHERS They are said, in the Acts of Saint Eugenia, to have been eunuchs and retainers to that virtuous lady and martyr, who is honoured on December 25. Their martyrdom, and that of Eugenia, is placed in these acts under Valerian, in 257, but the Liberian Calendar assures us, that Saint Basilla, who seems to have been a companion of Saint Eugenia, received her crown on September 22, in the persecution of Diocl...