Let us pray especially today to those nameless Christian heroes and beg them for the courage to face the obstacles to faith in our day with the bravery with which they faced death itself.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
June 30, 2011....First Martyrs of the Church of Rome
Today's feast honors the countless martyrs who were killed by the mad Emperor Nero because of the fire in Rome he had blamed on them. Cruel and inhuman tortures were inflicted on the brave Christian community. the church was persecuted more or less intensely from 64 to 314 AD.
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