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Victories of the Martyrs (Paperback)
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Studying the Lives of the Saints will help us imitate their
virtues. Some may ask, why study the lives of the Martyrs? Their
lives are extraordinary in that they suffered the cruelest of
torments for the love of Jesus Christ, which we will not be called
upon to suffer. There are many reasons to study the lives of the
Saints. Saint Alphonsus tells us: "It maybe useful here to remark,
with St. Augustine, that it is not the torture, but the cause,
which makes the martyr. Whence St. Thomas teaches that martyrdom is
to suffer death in the exercise of an act of virtue. From which we
may infer, that not only he who by the hands of the executioner
lays down his life for the faith, but whoever dies to comply with
the divine will, and to please God, is a martyr, since in
sacrificing himself to the divine love he performs and act of the
most exalted virtue. We all have to pay the great debt of nature;
let us therefore endeavor, in holy prayer, to obtain resignation to
the divine will-to receive death and every tribulation in
conformity with the dispensations of His Providence. As often as we
shall perform this act of resignation with sufficient fervor, we
may hope to be made partakers of the merits of the martyrs. St.
Mary Magdalene, in reciting the doxology, always bowed her head in
the same spirit she would have done in receiving the stroke of the
executioner." And there is a further reason to study the lives of
the Martyrs. Martyrdom is not something that is offered to the
mediocre, but to the fervent Christian. Some martyrs lived a
century of holiness prior to consummating their martyrdom.
Martyrdom is a straight ticket to heaven, but it is a ticket that
is often earned by a pious life. True there are those very few, who
convert and then are immediately martyred. But many more lived a
fervent Christian life, which was crowned with the grace of
martyrdom. Althoguh we may not give our lives in the manner they
did at the end, we can give our lives in the manner they gave their
lives before called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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