[Rank]
S. Placidi and Sociorum Martyrum;;Simplex;;1.1;;vide C3

[Rule]
vide C3;

[Oratio]
O God, who dost permit us to keep the birthday of thy holy Martyrs Placidus and his companions, grant that we may enjoy their fellowship in everlasting happiness.
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[Lectio93]
!Commemoration of Ss. Placidus and Companions, Martyrs
Placidus was the son of Tertullus, one of the noblest persons of Rome. He was offered to God (by his father) when a child (only seven years of age) and given over to holy Benedict, in whose teaching and Rule of monks he so profited that he was reckoned among the chiefest of his disciples. By him he was sent into Sicily, where he founded near the Port of Messina a Church and monastery in honour of St. John the Baptist, and lived therein with his monks in wonderful holiness. Thither there came to see him his brothers Eutychius and Victorinus and his virgin sister Flavia, and while they were together, there landed there a certain brutal pirate, named Manucha, who took the monastery, and when he could in no wise prevail upon Placidus and the others to deny Christ, he commanded him, his brothers, and his sister to be cruelly murdered. With them Donatus, Firmatus a Deacon, Faustus, and thirty other monks brought the conflict of testimony to the blessed end of martyrdom, upon the fifth day of October, in the year of salvation 539
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