Saint Soter And Saint Caius. Popes And Martyrs. Feast Day 22 April. White Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Soter and Saint Caius.
   Popes and Martyrs.
   Feast Day 22 April.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Soter.

The Pope Who Established Easter 

And Defended The Sacrament of Marriage.

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Pope Soter succeeded Pope Anicetus in 161 A.D., and was Martyred ten years later under Emperor Marcus Aurelius. 

Pope Caius, whose Relics are kept in the Sanctuary of Saint Sylvester, at Rome, governed The Church a Century later and was put to death in 296 A.D.

Pope Saint Caius.

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Like all the Sovereign Pontiffs of the first Centuries, they united their sacrifice to that of Christ and “in Him bore much fruit” (Epistle). 

“God then avenged the blood of His servants and invited them to the Marriage Feast of The Lamb” (Epistle), to associate them in His Triumph and Happiness (Gospel, Offertory, Communion).

Let us honour the Blessed Martyrs Soter and Caius in order that, in Heaven, their powerful intercession may obtain for us Divine protection (Collect).

Mass: Sancti tui.