Saint of the Day – 23 August – St Zaccheus (2nd Century) the 4th Bishop of Jerusalem. Also known as – Zacharius, Zaccheus.
The Roman Martyrology reads today: “At Jerusalem, St Zaccheus, Bishop who governed the Church of that City, the 4th after the blessed Apostle, James.”
St James the Greater
The Roman Martyrology lists only two Saints named Zacchaeus, one the Bishop of Jerusalem with a Feast Day on 23 August and the other, the Martyr of Caesarea in Palestine together with St Alphius.
Zacchaeus as the Bishop is mentioned by St Eusebius (265-340), the Bishop and Historian of Caesarea, who in his “Historia Ecclesiastica” lists the names of the first 4 Bishops of Jerusalem, namely St James Apostle, St Simeon, Justus and Zacchaeus.
Therefore, Zacchaeus was the 4th Bishop of Jerusalem and lived in the 2nd Century. Unfortunately, nothing else is known of his life and his time as the Ecclestical shepherd of Jerusalem.
Tthe Hagiographer Adone († 875) was the first to include him in his ‘Martyrology’ from which it passed to that of Usuard († 877) and from there to the ‘Roman Martyrology’ compiled by Cardinal Caesar Baronius in the 16th Century.
St Philip Benizi OSM (1233-1285) Confessor, Co-Founder (one of the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of Servants of Mary) OSM, Servite Priest Genera\Superior, Reformer, Preacher, Medical Doctor. St Philip was Beatified on 8 October 1645 by Pope Innocent X and Canonised on 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X – he was the first Servite to be Canonised. Born on15 August (Feast of the Assumption and the day that the Blessed Virgin appeared to the first of the Founders of the Servite Order) 1233 at district of Oltrarno, Florence, Italy -and died on 22 August (Octave of the Assumption i.e. the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary) 1285 at Todi, Italy). This Amazing Life: https://anastpaul.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/saint-of-the-day-23-august-st-philip-benezi/ AND: https://anastpaul.com/2022/08/23/saint-of-the-day-23-august-st-philip-benizi-osm-1233-1285-confessor/
St Abbondius of Rome St Altigianus St Apollinaris of Rheims St Archelaus of Ostia St Asterius of Aegea St Claudius of Aegea St Domnina of Aegea St Eleazar of Lyons St Eonagh
Bl Giacomo Bianconi of Mevania St Hilarinus St Ireneus of Rome St Lupo of Novi St Luppus
St Marcian of Saignon, France – Priest, Founder and the first Abbot of the Benedictine Abbaye Saint Eusebe, the Abbey of St Eusebius. Unfortunately we do not even know the year of his birth or of his death but we do know the day of death was 23 August. The Little We Know of His Life: https://anastpaul.com/2023/08/23/saint-of-the-day-23-august-st-marcian-of-saignon-abbot/
St Maximus of Ostia St Minervius of Lyons St Neon of Aegea St Quiriacus of Ostia St Theonilla of Aegea St Timothy of Rheims
St Victor of Vita St Zaccheus (2nd Century) Bishop of Jerusalem
Martyrs of Agea – 4 Saints: A group of Christian brothers, Asterius, Claudius and Neon, denounced by their step-mother who were then tortured and Martyred in the persecutions of Pro-consul Lysias. They were crucified in 285 outside the walls of Aegea, Cilicia (in Asia Minor) and their bodies left for scavengers.
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