English: Saint Abdon and Saint Sennen.
Catalan: Sants Abdó i Senén.
Artist: Jaume Huguet (1459-1460).
Source/Photographer: Catholic Culture
Collection: Santa Maria de Terrassa.
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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 13.
Time After Pentecost.
Book IV.
The decrees of Eternal Wisdom ordained that the West should be honoured before the East with the glory of Martyrdom.
Yet, when the hour had come, Jesus was to have, beyond the Tigris, millions of witnesses by no means inferior to their forerunners, astonishing Heaven and Earth by new forms of heroism.
Impatient of the delay, two noble Persians won their Palm on this day by the command of Rome. By shedding their blood, they paid tribute for their native land to the Eternal City; and now they protect our Latin Churches, and receive the Prayers and praise of the West.
France received a goodly portion of their Sacred Relics; and the City of Arles-sur-Tech, in Roussillon, can show to an incredulous generation the sarcophagus, from which flows a mysterious liquor, a symbol of the continual benefits bestowed on us by these Holy Martyrs.
Hearken to our earnest Prayers, O Blessed Martyrs !!! May the Faith at length triumph in that land of Persia whence so many flowers of Martyrdom have been culled for Heaven.
Before the time appointed for the struggle to begin in your native land, ye went to meet death elsewhere, and thus ye gained a new fatherland whereon to bestow your love.
Bless us, the fellow-citizens of your choice, and bring us all to the Eternal Fatherland of all the Children of God.
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