Antipas

The lives of the Fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints · 2 · ST. ANTIPAS, M.

ST. ANTIPAS, M.

Called by Christ his faithful witness, Apoc. xi. 13. He suffered at Pergamus ; where his tomb was famed for miracles in after ages. See Papebroke, p. 4; Tillemont, t. 2, p. 130.

ST. GUTHLAKE, HERMIT,

AND PATRON OF THE ABBEY OF CROYLAND.*

He was a nobleman, and in his youth served in the armies of Ethelred, king of Mercia : but the grace of God making daily stronger impressions on his heart, in the twenty-fourth year of his age he reflected how danger- ous a thing it is to the soul to serve in wars which too often have no othei motive than the passions of men and the vanities of the world, and resolved to consecrate the remainder of his life totally to the service of the King of kings. He passed two years in the monastery of Repandun, studying to transcribe the virtues and mortifications of all the brethren into the copy of his own life. After this novitiate in the exercises of an ascetic life, with the consent of his superior, in 699, with two companions, he passed in a fisher's boat into the isle of Croyland, on the festival of St. Bartholomew, whom he chose for his patron, and, by having recourse to his intercession, he obtained of God many singular favors. Here he suffered violent tempta- tions and assaults, not unlike those which St. Athanasius relates of St. An- tony : he also met with severe interior trials, but likewise received frequent extraordinary favors and consolations from God. Hedda, bishop of Dor- chester, visiting him, ordained him a priest. The prince Ethelbald, then an exile, often resorted to him, and the saint foretold him the crown of the Mer- cians, to which he was called after the death of king Coelred, in 719. The saint, foreknowing the time of his death, sent for his sister Pega,f who lived a recluse in another part of the fens, four leagues off to the west. He sick-

« Serin. 36, c. 3, p. 95, ib.

• Called in the English Saxon language Guthlaccr of Cruwland.

t St. Pega is honored on the 8th of January. Her cell, near Peakirk, stood at the extremity of a bign

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ground, which jut? out into the fenny level, where is the chapel of St. Pega's monastery. Here passed Carsdike, so called Irom Carausius. It was projected by Auricula, and perfected by Severity to carry corn in boats tor the army in the North. It was conducted from Peterborough into the Trent at Torksey, below Burton, whence the navigation was carried on by natural rivers to York. Carausius repaired it and con- tinued it on the borders of the fenny level as far as Cambridge, which he built and called Grant*. This place was the head of the navigation, and Carausius instituted the groat fair when the fleet of boats sel out with corn and other provisions, which is still kept, with many of the ancient Roman customs unds* the name of Stourbridge fair. See Stukeley's Medalllc History of Carausin, t. 1. p IT-: fee. liei

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The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 04, April · S. ANTIPAS, B. OF PERGAMOS, M.

S. ANTIPAS, B. OF PERGAMOS, M.

(A.D. 92.)

[Greek M ecology of the Emperor Basil. His office was composed by S. Joseph the Hymnographer. Inserted in the Roman Martyrology by Baronius. Authority : Rev. ii. 13, and a long posterior account of the martyrdom from tradition by a priest of Pergamos.]

|NTIPAS is he of whom Christ spake to the angel or bishop of Pergamos, “Thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you.”

The traditional account is that he was inclosed in a brazen bull, over a fire, and scorched and suffocated to death therein. Perillus, the inventor of this horrible mode of execution, was constrained by Phalaris, tyrant of Agri- gen turn, to suffer by it

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Digitized by L^ooQle

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6 ". Leo the Great.

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Biographical overview

Antipas can refer to: Herod Antipas, an ancient ruler of Galilee and Perea Antipater the Idumaean, the founder of the Herodian Dynasty, father of Herod the Great, and grandfather of Herod Antipas Antipas of Pergamum, martyred bishop of the early Christian Church, referred to in the Biblical book of Revelation Antipas, Cotabato, a municipality in the Philippines Antipas (tribe), one of several Jivaroan peoples indigenous to the upper Amazon Antipas (Millennium), a third-season episode of Millennium Quincy Antipas (born 1984), Zimbabwean footballer

Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness

Pergami, in Asia, sancti Antipae, testis fidelis, cujus meminit sanctus Joannes in Apocalypsi. Ipse autem Antipas, sub Domitiano Imperatore, in bovem aeneum candentem conjectus, martyrium consummavit.

The lives of the Fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints · 2 · ST. ANTIPAS, M.

Called by Christ his faithful witness, Apoc. xi. 13. He suffered at Pergamus ; where his tomb was famed for miracles in after ages. See Papebroke, p. 4; Tillemont, t. 2, p. 130.

ST. GUTHLAKE, HERMIT,

AND PATRON OF THE ABBEY OF CROYLAND.*

He was a nobleman, and in his youth served in the armies of Ethelred, king of Mercia : but the grace of God making daily stronger impressions on his heart, in the twenty-fourth year of his age he reflected how danger- ous a thing it is to the soul to serve in wars which too often have no othei motive than the passions of men and the vanities of the world, and resolved to consecrate the remainder of his life totally to the service of the King of kings. He passed two years in the monastery of Repandun, studying to transcribe the virtues and mortifications of all the brethren into the copy of his own life. After this novitiate in the exercises of an ascetic life, with the consent of his superior, in 699, with two companions, he passed in a fisher's boat into the isle of Croyland, on the festival of St. Bartholomew, whom he chose for his patron, and, by having recourse to his intercession, he obtained of God many singular favors. Here he suffered violent tempta- tions and assaults, not unlike those which St. Athanasius relates of St. An- tony : he also met with severe interior trials, but likewise received frequent extraordinary favors and consolations from God. Hedda, bishop of Dor- chester, visiting him, ordained him a priest. The prince Ethelbald, then an exile, often resorted to him, and the saint foretold him the crown of the Mer- cians, to which he was called after the death of king Coelred, in 719. The saint, foreknowing the time of his death, sent for his sister Pega,f who lived a recluse in another part of the fens, four leagues off to the west. He sick-

« Serin. 36, c. 3, p. 95, ib.

• Called in the English Saxon language Guthlaccr of Cruwland.

t St. Pega is honored on the 8th of January. Her cell, near Peakirk, stood at the extremity of a bign

-i i»l n . 1 it* r i 1 1 1 1 ill I a All t ml,, ll,,, lnn.,i- 1...-.-, I ...U „_,. :_ .1 _1 ■ _*>£•«.. i> * ..'

ground, which jut? out into the fenny level, where is the chapel of St. Pega's monastery. Here passed Carsdike, so called Irom Carausius. It was projected by Auricula, and perfected by Severity to carry corn in boats tor the army in the North. It was conducted from Peterborough into the Trent at Torksey, below Burton, whence the navigation was carried on by natural rivers to York. Carausius repaired it and con- tinued it on the borders of the fenny level as far as Cambridge, which he built and called Grant*. This place was the head of the navigation, and Carausius instituted the groat fair when the fleet of boats sel out with corn and other provisions, which is still kept, with many of the ancient Roman customs unds* the name of Stourbridge fair. See Stukeley's Medalllc History of Carausin, t. 1. p IT-: fee. liei

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The Lives Of The Saints: Volume 04, April · S. ANTIPAS, B. OF PERGAMOS, M.

(A.D. 92.)

[Greek M ecology of the Emperor Basil. His office was composed by S. Joseph the Hymnographer. Inserted in the Roman Martyrology by Baronius. Authority : Rev. ii. 13, and a long posterior account of the martyrdom from tradition by a priest of Pergamos.]

|NTIPAS is he of whom Christ spake to the angel or bishop of Pergamos, “Thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you.”

The traditional account is that he was inclosed in a brazen bull, over a fire, and scorched and suffocated to death therein. Perillus, the inventor of this horrible mode of execution, was constrained by Phalaris, tyrant of Agri- gen turn, to suffer by it

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Digitized by L^ooQle

April xz.]

6 ". Leo the Great.

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