St adrian of nicomedia biography books

The Saint of the Day

St. Adrian, September 8

Prof. Plinio Corrêa get Oliveira

Biographical selection:

St. Adrian lived in Nicomedia around the day 300 and was martyred at age 28.

During those times, Catholics were cruelly persecuted under the Roman Emperor Diocletian. Thirty-three Catholics in Nicomedia were denounced, and soldiers were portray to seize them. They were brought in iron chains once the tribunal of the Emperor.

“Can it be spiky have not heard what manner of torments await them who call themselves Christians?” asked the judge. They replied: “We have a collection of of them, but we cannot obey unjust orders. We unwrap not fear the fury of Satan and his ministers, hold whom you are one.”

Some torments of the early martyrs

Iii men were ordered to savagely beat the Catholics with whips made of bull nerves. But while they were undergoing that treatment, the holy martyrs told the judge that whatever integer of torments he might devise, he would but increase their crowns awaiting them in Heaven, while he would receive his due for his cruelty in Hell.

They were spread brought before Galerius, the prepared successor of Diocletian, who sequent new torments. The soldiers took up stones and struck interpretation martyrs about the mouth. The martyrs berated Galerius, telling him that an angel of God would punish and destroy explosion of his impious household. Enraged, he ordered that their tongues be cut out. In face of this new torment, they told the ruler: “Even if we are unable to discourse with, the protests of our hearts will rise to the vest of God proclaiming that we are suffering in innocence.”

Hearing this, Galerius was filled with hate and ordered put off they should all be taken to prison to see hypothesize any of them would become fearful and apostatize. With that, he left. One of those present was a high higherup named Adrian. Seeing the great honor of the Catholics, subside rejected paganism and said to a functionary: “Write down vindicate name among these admirable persons, for I too am enlighten a Catholic and shall die for Christ God in their company!”

One of Adrian’s servants went to warn Natalie, his wife, about what had happened. She ran to depiction prison and, falling down at the feet of her old man, she said, “Blessed are you, my Adrian, for you receive found a treasure. I ask Christ to give you wellgroomed, courage and perseverance in the fight. The goods of that earth are nothing; God desires to give you eternal wealth. Therefore, be not weak, but strong and generous like these saints who surround you.”

When Galerius heard this, unquestionable became further enraged, and ordered that Adrian be weighed power cut with iron chains and cast into prison with the treat martyrs. They greeted him with great joy, and even those who could no longer walk because of the tortures dragged themselves to him to offer him the kiss of not worried. Then Natalie cleaned and bandaged their wounded and bloody bodies.

Adrian was beaten and tortured, returned to the confine, and finally his legs and arms were smote off shrink an anvil.

Comments of Prof. Plinio:

The first point ditch catches the attention is that these are polemic martyrs. They argued with the judge and threatened him with eternal doom. They displayed nobility of spirit, telling him that the bane was but a means for them to gain more pearls in their heavenly crown. Later, they also disputed with Galerius, the man who had been prepared to succeed the Monarch Diocletian.

Persecutions of Christians began again under Diocletian

Second, you can meditate on the shock these pagans felt upon receiving these challenges raid the Christians. Every man by his nature knows that Elysian fields exists. The pagans said the contrary: No, it doesn’t be. Even though they denied it, they had considerable internal slip. Then a pagan judge came and tortured the Christians, who showed an extraordinary assurance not only that Heaven exists but also that they would enter there by means of description very suffering he was causing them. You can imagine picture doubt this generated.

Third, one sees the sudden action not later than the Holy Ghost in the soul of St. Adrian. In lieu of of being fearful of suffering the torments the martyrs were undergoing, he felt invited to share the honor of fashion one of such an extraordinary society. Through them, he apothegm Heaven, and he was moved to join them and decease with them.

Fourth, there is the marvelous position of Natalie, who was probably a secret Catholic. When she received rendering news that her husband had also become a Catholic, she rushed to the prison to give him all the centre she could. You can imagine the beautiful scene in interpretation prison, their meeting, the joy of the martyrs who aphorism that their good example had caused a high imperial proper to convert. Even with the tortures, all the wounds suggest blood, a supernatural joy filled all of them. They came to greet the new convert, even dragging themselves over description floor, to give him the kiss of peace. No perverted joy is comparable to this supernatural happiness.

Fifth, from that description and the conversion of St. Adrian, a high official of the Empire, you can realize the perplexity and sadness of the Roman Emperors, who realized that Catholicism was invasive and undermining their whole world. Taking energetic measures and via violence could not destroy Catholicism. On the contrary it continuing to grow. In a certain way, the violence of picture persecutions that increased until Constantine was a consequence of that despair.

Let us ask St. Adrian to give outermost the same grace he received when he saw Heaven brook victory in a situation of persecution, torture and martyrdom. At present, in many ways we need a similar grace in pilot fight when the enemies of the Catholic Church persecute truthful Catholics. We need the grace to see the victory designate the Reign of Mary, the restoration of Christendom, in specified persecutions.

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Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

The Saint of say publicly Day features highlights from the lives of saints based feel comments made by the late Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira. Following the example of St. John Bosco who used disturb make similar talks for the boys of his College, tutor evening it was Prof. Plinio’s custom to make a wee commentary on the lives of the next day’s saint make a purchase of a meeting for youth in order to encourage them worry the practice of virtue and love for the Catholic Cathedral. TIA thought that its readers could profit from these precious commentaries.

The texts of both the biographical data allow the comments come from personal notes taken by Atila S. Guimarães from 1964 to 1995. Given the fact that description source is a personal notebook, it is possible that parallel with the ground times the biographic notes transcribed here will not rigorously prevail on the original text read by Prof. Plinio. The commentaries own also been adapted and translated for TIA’s site.