19 October
AT Arenas, in Spain, St. Peter of Alcantara, confessor, of the Order of Minorites, who was canonized by Clement IX. on account of his admirable penance and many miracles.—At Rome, the birthday of the holy martyrs Ptolemy and Lucius, under Marcus Antoninus. The former, as we learn from the martyr Justin, having converted an immodest woman to the faith of Christ, and taught her to practise chastity, was accused by a profligate man before the prefect Urbicius, and condemned to languish a long time in a filthy dungeon. At length, as he declared by a public confession that Christ was his master, he was led to execution. Lucius disapproving the sentence of Urbicius, and avowing freely that he was a Christian, received the same sentence. To them was added a third, who was condemned to suffer a like punishment.—At Antioch, the holy martyrs Beronicus, the virgin Pelagia and forty-nine others. —In Egypt, St. Varus, soldier, under the emperor Maximinus. He used to visit and comfort seven saintly monks detained in prison, when one of them happening to die, he wished to take his place, and having suffered with them cruel afflictions, he obtained the palm of martyrdom.—At Evreux, St. Aquilinus, bishop and confessor.—In the diocese of Orleans, the departure from this world of St. Veranus, bishop.—At Salerno, St. Eusterius, bishop.—In Ireland, St. Ethbin, abbot.—At Oxford, in England, St. Frideswide, virgin.
And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors and holy virgins.
Thanks be to God.