[Rank]
Ss. Chrysanthi and Dariae Martyrum;;Simplex;;1.1;;vide C3

[Rule]
vide C3;

[Oratio]
O Lord, we beseech thee, that the prayers of thy blessed martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria may succour us, and they whom they honour, may make us feel the kindly power of their help.
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[Lectio93]
Chrysanthus and Daria were an husband and wife, of noble birth, but glorious rather for their faith, which the wife learnt from the husband. They brought to Christ a great number of persons at Rome, she women, and he men. Therefore the Praefect Celerinus caused them to be taken, and gave them over to Claudius the Tribune, who bade Chrysanthus to be tormented by the soldiers, all bound as he was, but all his bonds brake, and so likewise the shackles wherein his feet were afterwards fastened. Then was Chrysanthus sewn up in an ox-hide and set in the full heat of the sun, and thereafter chained hand and foot and cast into a dark prison, but the chains dropped off from him, and the place was filled with light. Meanwhile Daria was haled to a brothel, but God kept her from insult, a lion guarding her, and herself always rapt in prayer. Lastly they were both of them led to a sand-pit upon the Salarian Way, where they were thrown alive into a hole, and buried in stones, and so were not divided in winning the victory of Martyrdom.
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