[Devotional] Feast of the Holy Maccabean Martyrs2 Maccabees 7The glorious martyrdom of the seven brethren and their mother.1 It came to pass also, that seven brethren, together with their mother, were apprehended, and compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh against the law, for which end they were tormented with whips and scourges.Contigit autem et septem fratres una cum matre sua apprehensos compelli a rege edere contra fas carnes porcinas, flagris, et taureis cruciatos.2 But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus: What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are ready to die rather than...
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