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Article: January 19 + Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum

January 19 + Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum - VENXARA®

January 19 + Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum

Marius, a Persian of noble birth, went to Rome to venerate the sepulchers of the martyrs with his wife Martha, a noble lady, and their two sons Audifax and Abachum. There they ministered to the Christians in prison, maintaining them both by their wealth and their own personal service, and buried the bodies of the slain.

This exposed them to the imperial vengeance and they were all arrested. Since they could not be induced by fear or threats to deny their faith and sacrifice to the gods, they were beaten with clubs, dragged about with ropes, burnt with hot iron plates and torn with hooks. Lastly their hands were cut off and tied about their necks, and they were led through the city and by the Via Cornelia to the place called Nymphe, thirteen miles from Rome, where they were put to death.

The first to die was Martha, who had earnestly exhorted her husband and sons to bear their suffering with constancy for the faith of Jesus Christ. Martha's body was cast into a well. Then the others were beheaded in the same sandpit and their bodies were thrown into the fire.

Felicitas, a noble Roman matron, having succeeded in securing the half-consumed remains of the father and sons and recovered the mother's body from the well, secretly buried them on her estate.

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