Lenten Station at Saint Eusebius's

Non-Italic Text taken from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal for Friday of the Fourth Week in Lent
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Station at the Church of Saint Eusebius
Indulgence of 10 years and 10 Quarantines
Violet Vestments

 Basilica Church of Sant'Eusebio

The Station is at the Sanctuary erected on the site of the house where Saint Eusebius, an ardent defender of the faith against Arius, died a martyr. In the 5th-Century, it was one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome. This Sanctuary may have been chosen in which to read the Epistle and Gospel relating to resurrections, since it is situated near the great cemetery of the Esquiline.

As in the Mass of yesterday, the Epistle and Gospel tells us of a double resurrection, an image of that which was to operate in the Souls of Catechumens and public penitents at the Easter Festival, and in the Souls of sinners during the season of Lent.

Both the widow of Sarepta, who went to Eliseus, and the mother who had recourse to Elias, represent the Gentiles, as they were both of heathen race. Our Souls have, through the Sacraments of Baptism and Penance, shared in the resurrection of Him who is "the life" (Gospel). In the same way, the bodily death of the son of the widow of Naim, and that of Lazurus, represent the spiritual death of our Souls caused by grievous sin. Penance restores them to life and brings them under the supernatural influence of Him who is "the resurrection" (Gospel).

By prayer and penance, let us provide for our spiritual interests (Collect).

 The High Altar, Basilica of Saint Eusebius

The Church was re-constructed in 1238 by Pope Gregory IX

The relics of Saint Eusebius are under the High Altar

Sant'Eusebio is a Basilica Church in Rome, devoted to Saint Eusebius of Rome, a 4th-Century martyr, and built in the Monti rione.

The Church is first mentioned in 474 A.D., by an inscription in the catacombs of Saints Marcellino e Pietro ad duas Lauros, and recorded as the Titulus Eusebii in the acts of the 499 A.D. Synod. It was consecrated "in honorem beatorum Eusebii et Vincentii" by Pope Gregory IX, after the restoration of 1238. The Romanesque style, dating back to this restoration, survived to the restorations of the 17th-, 18th-, and 20th-Centuries.

The Titulus S. Eusebii is held by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, Archbishop of Galveston-Houston in Texas, USA.