Roman Martyrology, July 6th

This Day, the Sixth Day of July

The Octave of the holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

In Judea, the holy prophet Isaias. In the reign of king Manasses he was put to death by being sawed in two and was buried beneath the oak Rogel, near a running stream.

At Rome, the birthday of Saint Tranquillinus, martyr, father of the Saints Mark and Marcellian, who were converted to Christ by the preaching of the martyr Saint Sebastian. Baptized by the blessed priest Polycarp, he was ordained priest by Pope Saint Caius. He was arrested while praying at the tomb of blessed Paul on the Octave of the Apostles, and stoned to death by the Pagans, and thus consummated his martyrdom.

At Fiesoli, in Tuscany, Saint Romulus, bishop and martyr, disciple of the blessed Apostle Peter, who commissioned him to preach the Gospel. After announcing Christ in many parts of Italy, he returned to Fiesoli, and was crowned with martyrdom with other Christians in the reign of Domitian.

In Campania, Saint Dominica, virgin and martyr, in the time of the emperor Diocletian. For having destroyed idols, she was condemned to the beasts, but being uninjured by them, she was beheaded and departed for heaven. Her body is kept with great veneration at Tropea, in Calabria.

The same day, Saint Lucia, martyr, a native of Campania. Being arrested and severely tortured by the lieutenant-governor Rictiovarus, she converted him to Christ. To them were added Antoninus, Severinus, Diodorus, Dion, and seventeen others, who shared their sufferings and their crowns.

In the vicinity of Treves, Saint Goar, priest and confessor.

At London in England, on Tower Hill, Saint Thomas More, chancellor of the entire realm, who was beheaded by order of King Henry VIII for the defense of the Catholic faith and the primacy of blessed Peter.

At Nettuno in Lazio, Saint Maria Goretti, a most devout young girl, who was savagely murdered for the defense of her virginity, and whom Pope Pius XII solemnly added to the catalogue of holy martyrs.

And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.

V: All ye Holy Martyrs, pray for us
R: Thanks be to God

– Roman Martyrology, 1914, revised edition with the imprimatur of Cardinal James Gibbons