#St. Eulogius of Córdoba

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Today the Church remembers SS. Peter, Walabonsus, Sabinian, Wistremundus, Habentius and Jeremiah, Martyrs.

Orate pro nobis.

Peter, Walabonsus, Sabinian, Wistremundus, Habentius and Jeremiah are numbered among the Martyrs of Córdoba, forty-eight Christian martyrs who were executed under the rule of Muslim administration in Al-Andalus (name given to Spain under Islamic rule). The hagiographical treatise written by the Iberian Christian and Latinist scholar Eulogius of Córdoba describes in detail the executions of the martyrs for capital violations of Islamic law (sharīʿa), including apostasy and blasphemy. The martyrdoms recorded by Eulogius (the only contemporary source) took place between 850 and 859 AD, which, according to the Mālikī judges of al-Andalus, broke the treaty signed between Muslims and their Christian subjects.

In 711 AD, a Muslim army of Moors from North Africa invaded and conquered the territories that previously belonged to the Visigothic Kingdom of Spain, which comprised the Christian Iberia peninsula. Under their leader Tariq ibn-Ziyad, they landed at Gibraltar and brought most of the Iberian Peninsula under Islamic rule in an eight-year campaign. The Iberian Peninsula was called Al-Andalus by its Muslim rulers. When the Umayyad caliphs were deposed in Damascus in 750 AD, the dynasty relocated to Córdoba, ruling an emirate there; consequently the city gained in luxury and importance, as a center of Iberian Muslim culture.

Once the Muslims had conquered Iberia, they governed it in accordance with Islamic law (sharīʿa). Blasphemy and apostasy from Islam were both capital offenses. In the Islamic religion, blasphemy includes insulting Muhammad and the Muslim religion. Apostasy is the crime of converting away from Islam. Under Islamic law, anyone whose father is Muslim is automatically a Muslim at birth and will automatically be guilty of apostasy if they proclaim any faith other than Islam. Anyone found guilty of either blasphemy or apostasy is swiftly executed in accordance with the Islamic death penalty.

The forty-eight Christians (mostly monks) were martyred in Córdoba, between the years 850-859 AD, being decapitated for announcing their apostasy publicly and blaspheming against Mohammed.

Peter, Walabonsus, Sabinian, Wistremundus, Habentius and Jeremiah were all murdered on June 7, 851 AD. Peter was a priest; Walabonsus, a deacon; Sabinian and Wistremundus, monks of St Zoilus in Córdoba in Al-Andalus; Habentius, a monk of St Christopher's; Jeremiah, a very old man, had founded the monastery of Tábanos, near Córdoba. For publicly denouncing Muhammad they were executed under Abderrahman in Córdoba. Jeremiah was scourged to death; the others were beheaded.

Almighty God, who gave to your servants Peter, Walabonsus, Sabinian, Wistremundus, Habentius and Jeremiah boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world, and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us, and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Amen.

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[rustykev]

Today we celebrate the Blessed Memorial of St. Eulogius of Córdoba. Pray for us! Read up on this Holy man of God and listen to the Mass readings and Psalm for today, drawing closer to Our Lord's Most Divine Merciful Heart. God love you.

Also, pray along and listen to the Morning Prayer of the Church.

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A silver reliquary containing the remains of Saints Eulogius and Leocritia of Cordoba, in Camara Santa, Oviedo Cathedral.

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St. Eulogius of Cordoba, Roman Catholic Martyred priest of Cordoba, Spain, slain by the Moors. He was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. He flourished during the reigns of the Cordovan emirs Abd-er-Rahman II and Muhammad I. Mar. 11

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Saint of the Day – 11 March – St Eulogius (Died 857) Priest and Martyr, Writer, Poet, Theologian, Teacher – It is not certain on what date or in what year of the 9th century he was born.   It must have been before 819, because in 848 he was a highly esteemed priest among the Christians of Catalonia and Navarre and priesthood was conferred only on men thirty years of age.   Patronages – carpenters, coppersmiths.

St Eulogius was of a senatorian family of Cordoba, at that time the capital of the Moors in Spain.   Our Saint was educated among the clergy of the Church of St Zoilus, a martyr who suffered with nineteen others under Diocletian.   Here he distinguished himself, by his virtue and learning and, being made priest, was placed at the head of the chief ecclesiastical school at Cordoba.   He joined assiduous watching, fasting and prayer to his studies and his humility, mildness and charity gained him the affection and respect of every one.

During the persecution raised against the Christians in the year 850, St Eulogius was thrown into prison and there wrote his Exhortation to Martyrdom, addressed to the virgins Flora and Mary, who were beheaded on 24 November, 851.   Six days after their death Eulogius was set at liberty.   In the year 852 several others suffered the like martyrdom.   St Eulogius encouraged all these martyrs to their triumphs and was the support of that distressed flock.

The Archbishop of Toledo dying in 858.   St Eulogius was elected to succeed him but there was some obstacle that hindered him from being consecrated, though he did not outlive his election two months.

A virgin, by name Leocritia, of a noble family among the Moors, had been instructed from her infancy in the Christian religion by one of her relatives and privately baptised. Her father and mother scourged her day and night to compel her to renounce the Faith. Having made her condition known to St Eulogius and his sister Anulona, intimating that she desired to go where she might freely exercise her religion, they secretly procured her the means of getting away and concealed her for some time among faithful friends.

But the matter was at length discovered and they were all brought before the cadi, who threatened to have Eulogius scourged to death.   The Saint told him that his torments would be of no avail, for he would never change his religion.   Whereupon the cadi gave orders that he should be carried to the palace and be presented before the king’s council. Eulogius began boldly to propose the truths of the Gospel to them.   But, to prevent their hearing him, the council condemned him immediately to lose his head.   As they were leading him to execution, one of the guards gave him a blow on the face, for having spoken against Mohamed he turned the other cheek and patiently received a second.

He received the stroke of death with great cheerfulness, on 11March, 859.   St Leocritia was beheaded four days after him and her body thrown into the river Guadalquivir but taken out by the Christians.

St Eulogius’s friend and biographer Paulus Alvarus affectionately described him as gentle, reverent, well-educated, steeped in Scripture and so humble, that he freely submitted to opinions of others less informed than he.   He said that Eulogius had a pleasant demeanour and conducted his relationships with such kindness that everyone regarded him as a friend.   A gifted leader, the most prominent among his charisma was the ability to give encouragement.   As a priest serving in an occupied country, he used this gift to strengthen his friends in the face of danger.

This humility shone particularly on two occasions.   In his youth he had decided to make a foot pilgrimage to Rome, notwithstanding his great fervour and his devotion to the sepulchre of the Prince of the Apostles (a notable proof of the union of the Mozarabic rite Church with Rome), he gave up his project, yielding to the advice of prudent friends. Again, during the Muslim persecution, in 850, after reading a passage of the works of St Epiphanius he decided to refrain for a time from saying Mass that he might better defend the cause of the martyrs, however, at the request of his bishop, Saul of Córdoba, he put aside his scruples.   His extant writings (Apologia, Exhortation to Martyrdom, Memorial of the Saints) are proof that Alvarus did not exaggerate.

Saint Eulogius demonstrated courageous love for the Lord, accepting martyrdom even when his position within society would have allowed him to avoid such a fate.   He recorded a detailed history of the martyrs of Cordoba, illuminating the widespread heroic faith which occurred in that region.

His life reminds us that all we have is given to us by the Lord—that without Him, we are nothing.   The message of Lent resonates with the lives of these “voluntary” martyrs of Cordova who gave their lives for their faith, recognising that those lives belonged to He who created them.

St Eulogius is buried in the Cathedral of Oviedo.

(via Saint of the Day - 11 March - St Eulogius (Died 857) Priest and Martyr,)

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Today in Christian History

Today is Friday, November 29th, the 333rd day of 2018. There are 32 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

851: Muslims in Spain release Eulogius, a supporter of a number of recent Christian martyrs, but require sureties that he will remain in Córdoba. Eventually they will  execute him because of his anti-Islamic agitation.

1226: Louis IX of France is crowned at Rheims. Because of the sanctity of his life, he will be declared a saint in 1297, twenty-seven years after his death.

1643: Death of Renaissance Italian composer and clergyman Claudio Monteverdi, who served as maestro di cappella at St Mark’s Cathedral, Venice. An innovator, he developed techniques that flourished in baroque music. He wrote an opera that is still produced, secular madrigals, and many sacred pieces, including several serene masses.

1780: The Congregational Church of Connecticut licenses African-American Lemuel Haynes to preach, making him the first African-American minister certified by a predominantly white denomination. He will later become the first African-American minister to pastor a white church in the United States.

1847: Native Americans massacre missionary-physician Marcus Whitman and twelve others at Walla Walla. Immigrants had brought measles. Resentment against white incursions came to a head: the natives accused Whitman and other missionaries of using evil magic and killed them.

1921: Death in Rochester, New York, of Augustus H. Strong, known for his work in systematic theology.

1950: A convention begins in Cleveland at which The Federal Council of Churches in America merges with seven other Protestant organizations to become the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

1958: Chinese missionary John Ding and his wife Zhu Yiming are captured by Communists in Tibet where they had been evangelizing. They are incarcerated. Zhu will die before her husband and he will not be notified for three years. Then he will be given her clothes and will find the toes of her shoes and the knee area of her dress are worn out from much prayer on her knees. Released after twenty-three years in prison, Ding will return to preaching and will remarry.

1970: In Nagpur, India, six church bodies—the Anglicans, the United Church of Northern India, the Baptists, the Methodists, the Church of the Brethren and the Disciples of Christ—merge to form the Church of North India.

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[rustykev]

Today we celebrate the Blessed Memorial of St. Eulogius of Córdoba. Pray for us! Read up on this Holy man of God and listen to today's Lenten devotional on how Our Lord invites you to draw closer to Him during this Holy season of Lent. God love you.

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Saint of the day March 11

St. Constantine. Constantine was king of Cornwall. Unreliable tradition has him married to the daughter of the king of Brittany who on her death ceded his throne to his son and became a monk at St. Mochuda monastery at Rahan, Ireland. He performed menial tasks at the monastery, then studied for the priesthood and was ordained. He went as a missionary to Scotland under St. Columba and then St. Kentigern, preached in Galloway, and became Abbot of a monastery at Govan. In old age, on his way to Kintyre, he was attacked by pirates who cut off his right arm, and he bled to death. He is regarded as Scotland's first martyr

St. Aengus, 824 A.D. Called Dengus and "the Culdee," a hermit and author of the Festlology of the Saints of Ireland, The Felire. The term Culdee refers to Aengus' love of solitude: Ceile De was a name given to the hermits of the time. Aengus, born in Clonengh, Ireland, became a solitary monk on the banks of the river Nore, where he communed with angels. In time he sought a more remote site near Maryborough, erecting a small hermitage there. Visitors drawn by his reputation for holiness drove Aengus to the monastery of Tallaght, near Dublin, then under the control of St. Maelruain. He tried to enter as a simple lay brother, not telling anyone who he was. Aengus, along with Maelruain (who had discovered the Culdee's real identity), wrote the Martyrology of Tallaght together in 790. Aengus completed his Felire in 805 in his Maryborough hermitage, having returned there when Maelruain died. Aengus passed away on March 11, 824, and was buried in Clonenagh. Mar.11

St. Eulogius of Cordoba, Roman Catholic Martyred priest of Cordoba, Spain, slain by the Moors. He was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. He flourished during the reigns of the Cordovan emirs Abd-er-Rahman II and Muhammad I. Mar. 11

St. Aurea, Roman Catholic Nun, During the Moorish occupation of Spain, she became a nun at a nearby Benedictine San Millan de la Cogolla abbey and lived as a solitary famed for her visions and miracles. Her feast day is March 11th

ST. SOPHRONIUS OF JERUSALEM, BISHOP

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ST. EULOGIUS, PRIEST AND MARTYR St. Eulogius of Cordoba, Roman Catholic Martyred priest of Cordoba, Spain, slain by the Moors. He was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. He flourished during the reigns of the Cordovan emirs Abd-er-Rahman II and Muhammad I. Mar. 11