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Information about the life of Saint Erasmus is scarce and derives from a Passio dating back to the 6th century. His date of birth is unknown. According to tradition, Erasmus was Bishop of Antioch. When persecutions against Christians broke out, he hid for seven years in a cave. Discovered and arrested, he was thrown into prison for refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods.
“Rogate”: the discovery of the necessity of prayer for vocations, according to the Gospel — “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray [Rogate] the Master of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Mt 9:38; Lk 10:2) — is the essence of the charism of Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia. The premature death of his father also led him to develop a special tenderness and loving care toward orphans.
An illiterate, simple, and humble Franciscan friar, he asked the rich for alms in order to distribute them to the poor. For forty years, he walked through the streets of his town, proclaiming the Gospel through both word and example.
A “strong” woman who followed the impulse of the Spirit and obeyed the voice of the Lord asking her to free her people and to restore faith for those in desolation. A laywoman, consecrated to virginity yet not cloistered, Joan of Arc was involved in the most dramatic conflicts of the Church and society of the time. Condemned as a heretic through a purely political show trial, she was sentenced to a tragic death even before her trial began - burned at the stake in the old market square of Rouen.
She made pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela no fewer than nine times and spent ten years in the Holy Land. She became a hermit and later an oblate, eventually becoming a spiritual point of reference for the entire city. Her name was Bona.
There is no certain information about the life of Emilio. Tradition places him as having lived around the 1st century and having been Bishop of Cagliari on the island of Sardinia.
Saint Emilio, together with Saints Felix, Priamo and Feliciano, is celebrated today and is most likely one of the four Sardinian martyrs who are commemorated in the Martyrology of St. Jerome. In Sardinia he is venerated in various places, especially in the town Sestu.
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