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Feastday: September 15

The massacre of the martyrs of Lyons with their bishop, St. Pothinus, took place during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius in the year 177. Marcellus, a priest, we are told, by Divine intervention, managed to escape to Chalon-sur-Saone, where he was given shelter. His host was a pagan, and seeing him offer incense before images of Mars, Mercury, and Minerva, Marcellus remonstrated with and converted him. While journeying toward the North, the priest fell in with the governor Priscus, who asked him to a celebration at his house. Marcellus accepted the invitation, but when he found that Priscus was preparing to fulfill religious rites, he asked to be excused on the ground that he was a Christian. This raised an outcry, and the bystanders tried to kill Marcellus there and then by tying him to the tops of two young trees in tension and then letting them fly apart. The governor ordered him to make an act of worship before an image of Saturn. He refused, whereupon he was buried up to his middle in the earth on the banks of the Saone, and died in three days of exposure and starvation. Butler mentions with St. Marcellus, the martyr St. Valerian who is named in the Roman Martyrology on September 15th. He is said to have escaped from prison at the same time as Marcellus, and was beheaded for the Faith at Tournus, near Autun. St. Valerian's feast day is September 15th.

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Emeka
8 months ago
I want to be like them, let me imitate their life style,they will see God,& me too, if i will live a saint life.
Joseph Mathew
8 months ago
St. Valerian, Pray for us to stand firm before temptations, rather than succombing to them.
asinner2
8 months ago
Why do readers feel compelled to post the obvious? It is clear that this article is about someone else even though there is an eventual tie-in. If anyone else has any information on this saint, please contribute! Otherwise, why must you take a positive inspiration (in St. Marcellus) and turn it into a negative by dwelling on what wasn't written instead of what was written? (Got it James?) Why emphasize the dark side of things while de-emphasizing the positive? I get enough of that in the media, thank you.
christopher
8 months ago
you are right hard 2 under stand but never the less
he was very brave i belive in you St valerian
i ask you 2 pray for me and my family
god bless
jax
1 year ago
Why is the whole article about Marcellus until the end. This is St Valerian's Feast Day not Marcellus'! I agree with original comment. Not very well written and very little about St Valerian.
James
1 year ago
I found the way this was written confusing. Too many pronouns are used "he", "he", "him" I got lost with who was being talked about. I had to re-read this several times. This feast day is supposed to be about St. Valerian, yet the whole thing until the very end, it all of a sudden switches gears and then finally tells us, in so many words, "oh, by the way, St. Valerian may have been St. Marcellus, companion."

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