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Gamaliel was a Pharisee, one of the most highly respected doctors of the law in Jerusalem. He was a member of the Sanhedrin and was thus present when a council of the Jewish authorities was determining whether to execute the Apostles. Gamaliel’s eloquence and reputation convinced the Jews to merely scourge the Apostles and send them away. According to St. John Chrysostom, Gamaliel converted to Christianity even before his former student St. Paul did. When St. Stephen Protomartyr was stoned to death, it was Gamaliel who recovered his body and buried it in his own tomb, as St. Joseph of Arimathea had done for Our Lord. In the same tomb, Gamaliel buried his son Abibas, a fellow convert who died young, and his friend Nicodemus, who is mentioned often in the Gospels. Finally, Gamaliel was buried in the same tomb, which lay several miles outside Jerusalem and was eventually forgotten. In the year of Our Lord 415, Gamaliel appeared to a good priest named Lucian and revealed the location of the holy relics. Today is thus the feast of the Finding, or “Invention”, of the Body of St. Stephen, and of the three saints who shared his tomb: Nicodemus, Abibas, and Gamaliel.
AT Jerusalem, the finding of the body of most blessed Stephen, first martyr, and of the Saints Gamaliel, Nicodemus, and Abibo, through a divine revelation made to the priest Lucian, in the time of the emperor Honorius.
At Constantinople, the birthday of St. Hermellus, martyr.
In the East Indies, near Persia, the martyrdom of holy monks and other Christians who were put to death after suffering various torments, during the persecution of the Church of God by king Abenner.
At Naples, in Campania, St. Aspren, bishop, who was cured of a sickness by the apostle St. Peter, and after being baptized, was made bishop of that city.
At Autun, the demise of St. Euphronius, bishop and confessor.
At Anagni, St. Peter, bishop, who rested in the Lord after gaining great renown for monastical observance and for pastoral vigilance.
At Philippi, in Macedonia, St. Lydia, a dealer in purple, who was the first to believe in the Gospel when the apostle St. Paul preached in that city.
At Beroea, in Syria, the holy women Marana and Cyra.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.