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Title: The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine), 1834-1924
Subjects: Christian saints
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Grant
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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enthe occasion of his sending Aristobulus and other mis-sionaries with Bran to Britain, This must have been aboutA.D. 63 ; whereas Brans return to Britain, supposing him tohave been taken at the same time as Caractacus, wouldhave been in 58. But it is probable that Bran becamehostage after the release of Caractacus, in which case theseven years of his residence in Rome may have closed in63. It is hardly likely that Christianity had made sufficientway among the Gentiles in Rome so early as 51-58 as toreach the British hostages. Claudia and Pudens were theparents of Novatus, Timotheus, Praxedes and Pudentiana,all of whom are numbered with the saints. After a long life, spent in the exercise of Christian virtues,she died at her husbands villa at Sabinum in Umbria, atthe beginning of the 2nd cent. Her body was translated toRome by her sons, and laid in the tomb of Pudens, besideher husband. The above is based on suppositions moreor less hazardous, rather than on historical evidence. *- -*
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Aug., p. 86. ) S. ALBERT OF SICILY. After Cahier. (Aug. 7. *- -* August 7.) S. Cajetan. 87 S. CAJETAN, C.(a.d. 1547.) (Roman Martyrology. Beatified by Urban VIII., canonized by ClementX. Authorities :—A life by Antonio Caraccioli, Priest of his Order, pub-lished in 1612 ; another by F. Gius. Silos, Rome, 1671 ; another by DelTuffa, B. of Acerra, Paris, i6g8 ; another, in Italian, by Stefano Pepe,1657 : another, also in Italian, by Gio. Batt. Castaldo, Vicenza, 1627, &c.) S. Cajetan, or Gaetan, was bom at Vicenza in 1480, andwas the son of Caspar de Thienna and Maria Porta. Hisparents were of noble family. Their eldest son was JohnBaptist, but the second was called Gaetan, after a great-uncle, Gaetan de Thienna, Canon of Padua, a writer onAristotles natural philosophy. From an early age he was destined for the ecclesiasticalstate, and his youthful piety promised to make the arrange-ment one not of family convenience only, but of deliberatechoice on his part. He went to Rome, wher

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