Germanicus
Martyrological notice
AT Eome, on the Cornelian road, the holy martyrs •"• Marius and his wife Martha, with their sons Audifax and Abachum, noble Persians, who came to Home, through devotion, in the time of the Emperor Claudius. After they had been beaten with rods, tortured on the rack and with fire, lacerated with iron hooks, and had endured the cutting off of their hands, Martha was put to death in the place called Nympha, The others were beheaded and cast into the flames. — Also, St. Canute, king and martyr, whose birthday is the 7th of this month. — At Smyrna, under Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Aure- lius, the birthday of blessed Germanicus, martyr, who, in the bloom of youth, being strengthened by the grace of God, and freed from all fear, provoked the beast which, by order of the judge, was to de- vour him. Being ground by its teeth, he deserved to be incorporated into the true bread of life, Christ Jesus, for whom he died. — In Africa, the holy mar
Historical martyrology witness · The Roman Martyrology (English, 1916)
AT Eome, on the Cornelian road, the holy martyrs •"• Marius and his wife Martha, with their sons Audifax and Abachum, noble Persians, who came to Home, through devotion, in the time of the Emperor Claudius. After they had been beaten with rods, tortured on the rack and with fire, lacerated with iron hooks, and had endured the cutting off of their hands, Martha was put to death in the place called Nympha, The others were beheaded and cast into the flames. — Also, St. Canute, king and martyr, whose birthday is the 7th of this month. — At Smyrna, under Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Aure- lius, the birthday of blessed Germanicus, martyr, who, in the bloom of youth, being strengthened by the grace of God, and freed from all fear, provoked the beast which, by order of the judge, was to de- vour him. Being ground by its teeth, he deserved to be incorporated into the true bread of life, Christ Jesus, for whom he died. — In Africa, the holy mar