June 21st St. Terentianus
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June 21st St. Terentianus
He was the first Bishop of Iconium, in Lycaonia, in Asia Minor. He was one of the seventy-two disciples of Our Lord. At Saint Paul’s dictation, it was he who wrote down the Epistle to the Romans. His name is mentioned in this Epistle as Tertius, in Chapter 16, verse 22. He is, at least by way of name one of the favorite saints of the Irish people. Many thousands of Irish boys have been called after Saint Terence.
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales