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Anthony was born in Cremona to a noble Italian family in the year of Our Lord 1502. His father died when Anthony was only two years old, and his young mother devotedly raised and educated her son on her own until he was old enough to study medicine. After serving the poor as a doctor for several years, Anthony discerned a vocation, and left all he had earned to his mother so he could pursue holy orders. He was ordained at the age of twenty-six, and angels were seen around the altar at his first Mass. He earned great renown as a preacher, first in his home region and then throughout northern Italy, especially in Milan. He founded the Clerics Regular of St. Paul, known as the Barnabites, and the Angelic Sisters of St. Paul, and he helped popularize the Forty Hours’ Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Anthony’s great zeal for preaching and charitable works took a physical toll, and he fell seriously ill during a mission. He returned to Cremona, and received the last sacraments in his mother’s house at just thirty-seven years of age, in the year of Our Lord 1539. His body was found to be incorrupt, and he was eventually canonized by Pope Leo XIII.
AT Cremona, in Insubria, St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, confessor, founder of the Barnabites and the Angelic Virgins. Distinguished for all the virtues and for miracles, he was placed among the Saints by Leo XIII. His body is venerated in the church of St. Barnabas, at Milan.
At Rome, St. Zoe, martyr, wife of the blessed martyr Nicostratus. Whilst praying at the tomb of the apostle St. Peter, during the time of Diocletian, she was seized by the persecutors, and cast into a dark dungeon; then being suspended on a tree by her neck and hair, and suffocated by a loathsome smoke, she yielded up her soul in the confession of the Lord.
In Syria, the birthday of St. Domitius, martyr, who by his miracles confers many favors on the people of that country.
At Cyrene, in Lybia, St. Cyrilla, a martyr, in the persecution of Diocletian. For a long while she held on her hand burning coals with incense, lest by shaking off the coals she should seem to offer incense to the idols. She was afterwards cruelly scourged, and went to her spouse adorned with her own blood.
At Jerusalem, St. Athanasius, a deacon, who was apprehended by the heretics for defending the Council of Chalcedon, and after experiencing all kinds of torments, was put to the sword.
In Sicily, the holy martyrs Agatho and Triphina.
At Tomis, in Scythia, the holy martyrs Marinus, Theodotus, and Sedopha.
At Treves, St. Numerian, bishop and confessor.
St. Michael of the Saints, whose death is mentioned on the 10th of April.
At San Severino, in the March of Ancona, St. Philomena, virgin.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.