# Verified against Divinum Officium (Latin Martyrologium, English translation).
monthDay: "07-28"
text:
  la: |
    Medioláni natális sanctórum Mártyrum Nazárii, et Celsi púeri, quos Anolínus, sub rábie persecutiónis quæ per Nerónem excitáta est, diu macerátos et afflíctos in cárcere, gládio feríri jussit.

    Romæ pássio sancti Victóris Primi, Papæ et Mártyris.

    Item Romæ sancti Innocéntii Primi, Papæ et Confessóris, qui ad Dóminum migrávit quarto Idus Mártii.

    Thebáide, in Ægýpto, commemorátio plurimórum sanctórum Mártyrum, qui in Décii et Valeriáni persecutióne passi sunt, quando Christiánis, optántibus pro Christi nómine gládio pércuti, cállidus hostis, tarda ad mortem supplícia conquírens, ánimas cupiébat juguláre, non córpora. Ex eórum número unus, post equúleos et láminas ac sartágines superátas, melle perúnctus, ligátis mánibus post tergum, sub ardentíssimo sole, fucórum ac muscárum acúleis expósitus fuit; álius, inter flores mólliter vinctus, cum ad eum, ut concitáret in libídinem, impudicíssimum scortum venísset, præcísam morsu linguam in blandiéntis fáciem éxspuit.

    Ancýræ, in Galátia, sancti Eustáthii Mártyris, qui, váriis tormentórum genéribus excruciátus, atque demérsus in flumen, sed inde ab Angelo eréptus, demum, colúmba e cælis adveniénte, ad prǽmia ætérna vocátus est.

    Miléti, in Cária, sancti Acátii Mártyris, qui, sub Licínio Imperatóre, post divérsas pœnas, injéctus in fornácem ac Dei ope servátus illǽsus, cápitis abscissióne martýrium complévit.

    In Británnia minóre sancti Sampsónis, Epíscopi et Confessóris.

    Lugdúni, in Gállia, sancti Peregríni Presbýteri, cujus beatitúdinem glória miraculórum testátur.
  en: |
    At Rome, the holy martyr Pope Victor I.

    At Rome also, the holy Confessor Pope Innocent I.

    At Milan, the holy Nazarius, and Celsus a lad, both martyrs, whom Anolinus, during the madness of the persecution which Nero stirred up, caused to be beheaded, after they had been long maltreated and afflicted in prison.

    On the same day are commemorated many holy martyrs in the Thebaid, in Egypt, who suffered in the persecution under Decius and Valerian, when the Christians eagerly accepted death by the sword for Christ's name's sake, and the subtle enemy, seeking to slay souls rather than bodies, invented slower paths to death. One of them, after he had conquered the rack, and plates, and vessels of heated metal, had his hands tied behind his back and was smeared with honey, after which he was set in the burning sun, exposed to the stings of bees and flies. Another was tied down softly among flowers, and a shameless harlot was sent to excite him to lust, but he bit off the end of his tongue and spat it into her face as she was cajoling him.

    At Ancyra, in Galatia, the holy martyr Eustathius, who was put to the question with diverse kinds of torments, and cast into the river, whence he was delivered by an angel. But at length a dove came down to him from heaven, and called him away to his everlasting reward.

    At Miletus, the holy martyr Acatius, who, under the Emperor Licinius, after diverse torments, was cast into a furnace, where by the help of God he remained unhurt, and then finished his testimony by being beheaded.

    In Brittany, [in the sixth century,] the holy Confessor Samson, Bishop [of Dol.]

    At Lyon, [in the second century,] the holy Priest Peregrin, whose blessedness is attested by the glory of miracles.
status:
  la: verified
  en: verified
