- St. Celestine I (432). Pope. (Historical)
- St. Pantaleon (305). Martyr. Patron of against lung disease, doctors, and medical profession. (Traditional)
- Sts. Nathalia, Aurelius, Liliosa, Felix, and George (852). Martyr. (Historical)
ST. PANTALEON was physician to the Emperor Galerius Maximianus, and a Christian, but, deceived by often hearing the false maxims of the world applauded, was unhappily seduced into an apostasy. But a zealous Christian called prepare himself for the conflict, when Diocletian’s bloody persecution broke out at Nicomedia, in 303, he distributed all his possessions among the poor. Not long after this action, he was taken up, and in his house were also apprehended Hermolaus, Hermippus, and Hermocrates. After suffering many torments, they were all condemned to lose their heads. St. Pantaleon suffered the day after the rest. His relics were translated to Constantinople, and there kept with great honor. The greatest part of them are now shown in the abbey of St. Denys near Paris, but his head is at Lyons.
REFLECTION: “With the elect thou shalt be elect, and with the perverse wilt be perverted.”
WORD OF THE DAY
SILENCE. In spiritual terms, the conscious effort to communicate with God or the invisible world of faith in preference to conversation with other people. It is, therefore, not the mere absence of sound or physical stillness, except as either a precondition for recollection of spirit or the perceptible effect of being recollected. (Etym. Latin silere, to be still, noiseless.)
Modern Catholic Dictionary, Fr. John Hardon SJ (Get the real one at Eternal Life — don’t accept an abridged or edited version of this masterpiece!)
July, Month of the Precious Blood
The Precious BIood of Jesus – Short Meditations for July. July 27th — The Seventh Shedding of the Precious Blood.
