11 September
AT Rome, in the Cemetery of Basilla, on the old Salarian road, the birthday of the holy martyrs Protus and Hyacinth, brothers and eunuchs in the service of blessed Eugenia, who were arrested, in the time of the emperor Gallienus, on the charge of being Christians, and urged to offer sacrifice to the gods. But as they refused, both were most severely scourged, and finally beheaded.—At Laodicea, in Syria, the martyrdom of the Saints Diodorus, Diomedes, and Didimus.—At Leon, in Spain, St. Vincent, abbot and martyr.—In Egypt, the holy bishop Paphnutius, one of those confessors, who, under the emperor Galerius Maximinus, having their right eye plucked out and the joint of the left knee cut, were condemned to work in the metal mines. Afterwards, under Constantine the Great, he courageously combated for the Catholic faith against the Arians, and at length, being adorned with many crowns, rested in peace.—At Lyons, the demise of St. Patiens, bishop.—At Vercelli, St. Æmilian, bishop.—At Alexandria, St. Theodora, who having committed a fault through imprudence and repenting of it, remained unknown in a religious habit, and persevered until her death in practices of extraordinary abstinence and patience.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins.
Thanks be to God.