On August 12, A. He had been reading and explaining the Gospels to a gathered crowd. He staunchly professed his faith. With the Book of the Gospels, Euplius was led before the governor. The governor queried Euplius whether he brought the text from his house, or carried them about with him. Euplius replied he had no house and carried the Scripture with him at all times.
I will sooner die than deliver them. In them is eternal life, which is lost by him who would betray what God has entrusted to his keeping. Euplius was commanded to read from the Scriptures. At the height of his torment Euplius was asked if he still persisted in Christianity. Do what you please; add new torments; for I am a Christian. I have long desired to be in the condition in which I now am.
I worship the Holy Trinity, besides whom there is no God. All your efforts to move me are to no purpose. I am a Christian. When his strength failed him, his lips were seen still to move, the martyr continuing the same or the like prayer with his lips when he could no longer do it with his voice. The governor realized that he would never give up his faith, and ordered him to be beheaded. Confirm, O Lord, what You have begun in me.
The Christians carried off his body, embalmed and buried it. How many divisions does he have? Peter Kreeft, Boston College. We are not one of those rah-rah institutions. Peter Faber was born in in Villaret, Savoy in the south of France.
While tending sheep during the week, he taught cathechism to children on Sundays. Aware of his call to be a priest, he longed to study. At first, he was entrusted to the care of a priest at Thones and later to a neighbouring school at La Roche-sur-Foron. With the consent of his parents, in he went to the University of Paris. It was here that he discovered his real vocation. They became close friends and graduated on the same day in with a master of arts degree.
