Sts. Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs
by VP
Posted on Monday August 11, 2025 at 12:00AM in Saints
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"MIRACLES.-"Wherefore does not God work miracles, so as to make me believe?" asked a free-thinker of the last century, adding subsequently, "Were I to see miracles wrought, I would not believe them, for I should think my eyes were deceiving me." Those who act in good faith do not require so much. St. Tranquillinus, who suffered martyrdom under Diocletian, told his judge, Chromatius, that on being baptized he was released from the pains of gout, from which he had previously suffered. Chromatius sentenced him to death, but had himself instructed in the faith, because he also had suffered from violent attacks of the same malady. Having become a Christian, he was in like manner released from pain. His family were converted by the sight of this miracle. Tiburtius, the son of Chromatius, had even made sufficient progress in virtue to deserve being ordained subdeacon, and was discharging the holy functions when his zeal procured him the honour of being denounced and of suffering martyrdom. After having had his feet scorched over burning coals, he was taken to the distance of three miles from Rome, and there beheaded. His relics are preserved in the cathedral of Soissons.
MORAL REFLECTION. -Let us not ask for miracles from God, but become docile to the voice of "His Spirit, that breatheth where He will." -(John iii. 8.)" Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Abbe Lecanu