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We know that the soldiers of Christ are not slain but crowned
Today, August 7, as our Church celebrates the Memorial of Sixtus 11, Pope and Martyr, and Companions our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the first letter of Peter (2:1-17), entitled "We are built as living stones". Our treasure, which follows is from a letter by Saint Cyprian, bishop and martyr.
Sixtus II was Pope for less than a year when the persecution of Christians under the Roman Emperor Valerian intensified in A.D. 258. Despite an imperial decree forbidding Christian worship, Pope Sixtus II was celebrating the Eucharist in the Catacombs of Saint Callixtus…
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