Saturday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; Opt Mem of St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest

The Church celebrates two Optional Memorials today: —St. Eusebius of Vercelli (283-371) was a Roman priest of the fourth century. According to the acts relating his martyrdom, he was condemned by Constantius, the Arian Emperor, to be starved to death in a room in his own house. He was buried in the…

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