Today the Traditional Catholic Church also celebrates the feast of Holy, Saint Felicitas, Martyr. Saint Felicitas, is the mother of the Seven Holy Martyrs. The martyrdom of these Holy Saints, happened at Rome, under the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. These Holy seven brothers were the sons of Saint Felicitas, a noble, pious, Catholic widow in Rome, who, after the death of her husband, she served God in a state of continency and gave herself wholly in prayer, fasting, and works of charity. By the public and edifying example of this Holy lady and her whole family, many idolaters were moved to renounce the worship of their false gods, and to embrace the true Faith of Christ. This excited the anger of the evil priests, who complained to the emperor that the boldness with which Saint Felicitas publicly practiced in the Catholic religion which drew many away to worship of the immortal gods, who were the guardians and protectors of the empire, and that, in order to appease these false gods, it was necessary to compel this Holy lady and her children to sacrifice to them. Publius, the prefect of Rome, caused the mother and her sons to be apprehended and brought before him, and, addressing her, said, “Take pity on your children, Felicitas, they are in the bloom of youth, and may aspire to the greatest honors and preferment's.” The holy mother answered, “Your pity is really impiety, and the compassion to which you exhort me would make me the most cruel of mothers.” Then turning herself towards her children, she said to them, “My sons, look up to heaven, where Jesus Christ with His Holy Saints expects you. Be faithful to His love, and fight courageously for your souls.” Publius, being exasperated at this behavior, commanded her to be cruelly buffeted, he then called the children to him one after another, and used many artful speeches, mingling promises with threats to induce them to adore the false gods. His arguments and threats were equally in vain, and the brothers were condemned to be scourged. After being whipped, they were remanded to prison, and the prefect, despairing to overcome their resolution, laid the whole process before the emperor. Antoninus gave an order that they should be sent to different judges, and be condemned to different deaths. Januarius was scourged to death with whips loaded with plummets of lead. The two next, Felix and Philip, were beaten with clubs till they were dead. Sylvanus, the fourth, was thrown headlong down a steep precipice. The three youngest, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martialis, were beheaded, and the same sentence was executed upon the mother four months after. These Holy Saints pasted away in the year 150, during the reign of Emperor Marcus Antoninus. 🙂↕️️
Reflection: What afflictions do parents daily meet with from the disorders into which their children fall through their own bad example or neglect! Let them imitate the earnestness of Saint Felicitas in forming to perfect virtue the tender souls which God hath committed to their charge, and with this Saint they will have the greatest of all comforts in them, then will be by, His grace count as many Saints in their family as they are blessed with children.
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