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	Saints Vitalis and Agricola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saints Vitalis and Agricola were martyrs at Bologna about 304, during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian.
		Vitalis was first to suffer martyrdom, being executed in the ampitheatre.
		His mention of the martyrs Agricola and Vitalis in the first part of the oration is the only authority for their lives ("De exhortatione virginitatis", cc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saints_Vitalis_and_Agricola (260 words)

	St. Vitalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The feast of St. Vitalis occurs on 28 April, but the date of his martyrdom is uncertain.
		The question is discussed by Papebroch in the Bollandist "Acta" and by Tillemont in his "Memoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique".
		Papebroch cites churches dedicated in honour of St. Vitalis at Rome, Faenza, Rimini, Como, Ferrara, Venice, Verona, and at Jadera in Dalmatia, but the most famous church bearing his name is the octagonal San Vitale at Ravenna, the place of his martyrdom, built in the years 541-46 and dedicated as an inscription attests in 547.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/v/vitalis,saint.html (258 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of April 28
		Adalbero, scion of the family of the counts of Dillingen, was uncle to Saint Ulric.
		Saint Mark is said to have been a Galilean by descent and the first missionary bishop and martyr in the province of the Marsi (Abruzzi) in Italy (Benedictines).
		In art, Saint Vitalis is portrayed with stones in his lap, seated between his two sons, Gervasius and Protasius, who each hold a stone.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0428.htm (3466 words)

	Saint Maurice
		Saints Victor, Orsus and their comrads were barbarously tortured by Hirtacus, the roman governor of Solothurn.
		In the middle ages Saint Maurice was the patron saint of several of the roman dynasties of Europe, and later on of the Holy Roman emperors.
		The sword of Saint Maurice, was last used in the coronation of the Austrian Emperor Charles as King of Hungary in 1916.
	stmina.hamilton.on.coptorthodox.ca /synexarian/martyrs/maurice.htm (1915 words)

	Basilica of San Vitale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The church is of extreme importance in Byzantine art, as it is the only major church from the period of Emperor Justinian to survive virtually intact to the present day; furthermore, it is thought to reflect the design of the Byzantine Imperial Palace Audience Chamber, of which nothing at all survives.
		However, there is some confusion as to whether this is the Saint Vitalis of Milan, or the Saint Vitale, whose body was discovered together with that of Saint Agricola, by Saint Ambrose in Bologna in 393.
		Inside, the intrados of the great triumphal arch is decorated with fifteen mosaic medallions, depicting Jesus Christ, the twelve Apostles and Saint Gervasius and Saint Protasius, the sons of Saint Vitale.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Basilica_of_San_Vitale (915 words)

	Saints of June 19
		Saint Juliana was born into the noble Falconieri family and niece of Saint Alexis (the only one of the Seven Founders of the Servites to remain a lay brother).
		Saint Odo was the headmaster of the cathedral school of Tournai.
		Saint Ursicinus is said to have been a physician in Ravenna who, on being sentenced to death for the faith, wavered, but was encouraged by the soldier Saint Vitalis and accepted martyrdom.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0619.htm (1931 words)

	Normandy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Both Wace and Orderic Vitalis are important Norman writers for the history of the province.
		Saint Marcouf and Saint Lô who are important saints in Lower Normandy
		Normandy does not have one generally-agreed patron saint, although this title has been ascribed to Saint Michael, and to Saint Ouen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Normandy (1876 words)

	The Pontifical North American College - Station Church Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Saint Vitalis is the titular saint of the famous Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna.
		According to one account, Vitalis was a soldier who encouraged the physician St. Ursicinus of Ravenna to stand firm in the face of death for the sake of Christ.
		Gervase and Protase were the sons of St. Vitalis, and when the brother-martyrs’ cult came to Rome in the fourth century, a richly-adorned oratory was erected to them.
	www.pnac.org /station_churches/church_days/wk2fri.htm (392 words)

	Orthodox Saints for January
		Saint Philip was condemned and imprisoned in Moscow, but soon the Tsar, fearful of the people's love for their bishop, sent him to a monastery in Tver, where he lived confined and in great hardship.
		Saint Athanasius, pillar of Orthodoxy and Father of the Church, was born in Alexandria in275, to pious Christian parents.
		Saint John (Mauropus) obeyed, and chose January 30 as the date of the commemoration, since each of the three hierarchs is commemorated separately in January.
	www.abbamoses.com /months/january.html (18852 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of Patriarchs of Antioch
		Saint Vitalis was a martyr of the 1st century, who was, according to legend, stoned to death, is represented as buried in a pit with stones on his head.
		Meletius Of Antioch (died 381) was a Patriarch of Antioch from 360 to his death, and saint.
		Acacius was a cognomen of Rome, and the name of various saints: Saint Acacius the Bishop Saint Acacius of Byzantium (d.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Patriarchs-of-Antioch (2686 words)

	Prolog: April 22
		During the day he would offer himself for hire to do the most difficult jobs and at night, he would enter the houses of ill repute, gave the earned amount of money to some prostitute and close himself in the room with her the entire night.
		As soon as they were locked up, Vitalis would beg the woman to lie down and sleep and he would spend the entire night in a corner of the room in prayer to God for that sinner.
		Vitalis forbid all of these women to reveal the reason why he was visiting them.
	www.westsrbdio.org /prolog/my.html?day=22&month=April (1376 words)

	Byzantine Empire 3 - Crystalinks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At Daphni, the Pantocrator - Christ as Lord of the Universe - appears at the summit of the central dome, and the Virgin is represented in the apse above the altar as the instrument of Christ's incarnation.
		Below her the church on Earth is represented by the saints, and around the upper parts of the vaults were arranged major scenes from the life of Christ.
		Important examples of such centralized churches are Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople (527-36) and the stylistically related octagonal church of San Vitale in Ravenna (532-47).
	www.crystalinks.com /byzantine3.html (2114 words)

	Saint Vitalis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saint Vitalis martyred in 250 under the persecution of Decius, whose feast date is January 9
		Saint Vitalis, martyr at Bologna with Saint Agricola under Emperor Diocletian.
		San Vitale, the Italian name for Saint Vitalis, is also used to refer to churches devoted to one of them, notably the following famous ones:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Vitalis (121 words)

	Welcome to CatholicMil.org
		By tradition, this church was built to mark the spot where Pope Saint Sixtus II (257-258), on his way to martyrdom, met Saint Lawrence during the Valerian persecution (253-260) towards the end of the Roman Empire.
		Saint Cecilia was a noble Roman maiden who, together with St. Urban the Bishop, converted her patrician husband, St. Valerian, and his brother, St. Tiburtius, to Christianity.
		Saint Servulus begged for alms in the 6th century in the atrium of this church, where Pope St. Gregory the Great met him and preached a sermon about him after his death.
	www.catholicmil.org /html/article.php?id=191 (7529 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Saint Vitalis was a first century Christian citizen of Milan and the father of the twin brothers and future martyrs, Saints Gervasius and Protasius.
		Saint Vitalis now resigned his post as judiciary assistant to Paulinus, who had been absent on the occasion of the sentence of Ursinius.
		Afterwards, his wife Valeria, as she was on her way from Ravenna to Milan, was beaten by peasants because she refused to join them in an idolatrous festival and riot.
	www.infocatholic.com /viewSaint.aspx?SID=788 (297 words)

	OSB. Saints of the Order of Saint Benedict. S-Z
		Traditionally, information about the saints has been ordered by the date of the Saint's or Blessed's feast day, usually, but not always, the date of the venerated person's death.
		She is titular saint of many churches in Germany, Brabant, Flanders and France.
		On 3 May is celebrated at Eichstaett in Bavaria the translation of the remains of St. Walburga from Heidenheim to Eichstaett in 870.
	www.osb.org /gen/saints/bss4.html (757 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Guthlac
		Guthlac was born of noble stock, in the land of the Middle Angles.
		Soon a large monastery arose, and through the industry of the monks, the fens of Croyland became one of the richest spots in england.
		The later history of his shrine may be found in Ordericus Vitalis (Historia Ecclesiastica) and in the "History of Croyland" by the Pseudo-Ingulph.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07092a.htm (515 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| June 19 \| Niman Kachinas Hopi Indian Gervasius Protasius ...
		St Jude is a Christian saint and one of the twelve apostles of Jesus.
		He is invoked in desperate situations because his New Testament letter stresses that the faithful should persevere in the environment of harsh, difficult circumstances, just as their forefathers had done before them.
		Therefore, he is the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/jun19.html (3333 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Index for V
		Vincent, Saint - Essay on the deacon, a native of Saragossa, martyred in 304
		Vitalis and Agricola, Saints - Vitalis was a slave, converted to Christianity by his master Agricola.
		Vitalis of Savigny, Saint - Founder of the monastery and Congregation of Savigny.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/v.htm (3736 words)

	Lives of the Saints, April 28, Saint Louis Mary de Montfort, St. Paul of the Cross, St. Vitalis
		Saint Louis Mary at a given moment desired to go as a missionary to New France, but the Holy Father Clement XI committed to him the vast mission of preaching in his own homeland under the bishops of France.
		Saint Paul of the Cross established for his Order, on the breast of their fl habit, a badge he had seen in a vision, having on it the Holy Name of Jesus and a cross surmounting a heart with three nails, in memory of the sufferings of Jesus.
		Saint Paul of the Cross suffered for forty-five years from spiritual desolation, an expiatory suffering which he bore with perfect patience.
	www.magnificat.ca /cal/engl/04-28.htm (1498 words)

	in illo tempore » Saint Vitalis [April 28]
		Vitalis comes from vivens tails, one who lives correctly; for as he lived outwardly in his works, so too was he pious in his heart.
		Saint Vitalis, a knight of consular rank, was the father of Saints Gervasius and Protasius.
		Valeria, the wife of Saint Vitalis, was on her way to Milan when she came upon a number of pagans who were offering sacrifice to the idols; and these sought to compel her ot partake of the food offered up in their worship.
	www.inillotempore.com /blog/pivot/entry.php?id=75 (562 words)

	St. Maurice Of Theba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The following five Saints were martyred at Aguanum place (also this city is known now as Saint Maurice en Valais), along with the rest of their cohort..
		As of the writing of this article (September 1992), the only altar concecrated in the name of saint Maurice is found in the Church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Athanasius in Mississauga, Canada.
		On that occasion parts of the relics of Saint Maurice, St. Cassius and St. Florentius were returned to the Coptic Church.
	www.copticchurch.net /topics/synexarion/maurice.html (2181 words)

	St. Epiphanius
		If he made his first essay in Palestine, as M. Gervaise is persuaded upon the authority of the saint's Greek life, attributed by many to Metaphrastes, at least it is certain he went soon into Egypt to perfect himself in the exercises of that state, in the deserts of that country.
		The veneration which all men had for his sanctity, exempted him from the persecution of the Arian emperor Valens in 371; but he was almost the only Catholic bishop in that part of the empire who was entirely spared on that occasion.
		He even blamed Saint Chrysostom for affording them his protection; but a mild expostulation of that saint opened his eyes, and he hastened back to Salamis, but died on the voyage thither in 403, having been bishop thirty-six years.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/EPIPHAN.htm (806 words)

	MOSAICS OF SAN VITALE. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to Essay Express
		After the discovery of the bones of the reputed martyrs Agricola and his slave Vitalis at Bologna in the fourth century, Vitalis was widely venerated in the west.
		The church of which he is the patron saint in Ravenna was begun by Bishop Ecclesius in the second quarter of the sixth century, when the Goths still ruled there.
		This prominent position mirrors that of the church's titular saint, Vitalis, whom Christ awards the crown of martyrdom in the same scene at the far left (Ills.
	www.essayexpress.com /essay/011490.html (4011 words)

	419Gregory.html
		Saint Patiens, Bishop of Lyons, is said to have succored his people in just the same way during the famine.
		Saint Remigius was a bishop of immense learning and a great scholar more than anything else, but he was also famous for his holiness and he was the equal of Saint Silvester for the miracles which he performed.
		From the passing of Saint Martin until the death of King Clovis, which happened in the eleventh year of the episcopate of Licinius, Bishop of Tours, there are counted one hundred and twelve years.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/sterk/Documents/Gregory.htm (9928 words)

	St. Berard and Companions - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives.
		Each saint the Church honors responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique gifts.
		En route in Spain Vitalis became sick and commanded the other friars to continue their mission without him.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1262 (403 words)

	USCCB - (CCC) - Retreat Guide
		Saint Anthony is tormented by demons that lift him up into the air, punching and kicking him, pulling his hair and beard.
		Her confessor was a Jesuit, and it was this order that was primarily responsible for the spread of the cult (Saint Ignatius of Loyola, pointing to a text reading "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam") is the figure just to the left of the heart in Morlete Ruiz's painting in the film).
		The thoroughly beautiful image of some male or female saint is exhibited and that saint is believed to be the more holy the more highly colored the image is. People rush to kiss it, they are invited to donate, and they admire the beautiful more than they venerate the sacred.
	www.usccb.org /ccc/retreatguide.shtml (15690 words)

	Northern Lights on the Battle of Hastings
		Saint Audomarus, whose feast fell on 9 November (changed from 1 November after 807), was bishop of Therouanne.
		He founded the monastery of Saint Bertin in Sithiu on the river Aa, as well as the abbey of Saint Omer, which later gave its name to the city of Saint-Omer.
		On 13 November 1056, Count Baldwin V of Flanders subscribed a diploma at Saint-Omer for the abbey of Saint Peter of Ghent, and among the witnesses were Harold Godwinson and Count Guy of Ponthieu, the very person who, according to Norman sources, held Harold captive after his shipwreck on the coast of Ponthieu.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/gade.htm (6231 words)

	Welcome - Saint John High School
		Saint John High School, a community of learners, teachers and parents, will challenge the individual to become an innovative and critical thinker, to achieve personal standards of success and to participate in society as a responsible and caring citizen.
		On Tuesday, the class of 2010 was welcomed into Saint John High School with a bang.
		During the homeroom session for all students(new and returning), student fees of $40 will be collected and both agendas and lockers issued.
	www.sjhigh.ca (1210 words)

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