[Rank]
Ss. Marcellini, Petri, atque Erasmi Martyrum;;Simplex;;1.1;;vide C3

[RankNewcal]
Ss. Marcellini, Petri, atque Erasmi Martyrum;;Duplex optional;;2;;vide C3

[Rule]
vide C3;

[Oratio]
O God, Who dost every year gladden us by the solemn memorial of your blessed Martyrs Marcellinus, Peter, and Erasmus, grant us grace, we beseech thee, not only to rejoice because of their worthy deeds, but also to tread in their footsteps.
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[Lectio93]
This Peter was an exorcist, whom, in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian, Serenus the Judge cast into prison at Rome because he confessed the Christian faith. He there set free Paulina, the daughter of Artemius, the keeper of the prison, from an evil spirit which tormented her. Upon this, Artemius and his wife and all their house, with their neighbours who had run together to see the strange thing, would fain be made friends with Jesus Christ. Peter therefore brought them to Marcellinus, the Priest, who baptized them all. When Serenus heard of it, he called Peter and Marcellinus before him, and sharply rebuked them, adding to his bitter words threats and terrors, unless they would deny Christ. Marcellinus answered him with Christian boldness, whereupon he caused him to be buffeted, separated him from Peter and shut him up naked in a prison strewn with broken glass, without either food or light. Peter also he straitly confined. But when both of them were found to wax faithfuller and braver in their bonds, they were beheaded, unshaken in their testimony, and confessing Jesus Christ gloriously by their blood. Elmo was a Bishop in Campania who, (in the year 303,) in the reign of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian was beaten with clubs and whips loaded with lead, and afterwards anointed with melted pitch, sulphur, and lead, and boiling resin, wax, and oil. From all this he came forth whole and sound which wonder turned many to believe in Christ. He was remanded again to prison, and straitly bound in heavy iron fetters. But from these he was wondrously delivered by an angel. At last, at Formi, Maximian caused him to be subjected to diverse torments, and in the end being clad in a coat of redhot brass the power of God made him to be more than conqueror in this thing also, and to grasp the palm-branch of a glorious testimony, whereby he strengthened many in the faith and turned many to it.
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