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- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Serenus
- Fast, concise facts and information
- Date of Birth and Death
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Serenus
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Gardener, Martyr
Saint Serenus Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Serenus
The following provides fast and concise facts and information: - Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Serenus: 23 February
- Description / Title of the Saint : Gardener, Martyr
- Date of Death: Saint Serenus died 307
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The Story and History of Saint Serenus
The story and history of Saint Serenus. Serenus was by birth a Grecian. He quitted estate, friends, and country to serve God its celibacy, penance, and prayer. With this design he bought a garden in Sirmium in Pannonia, which he cultivated with his own hands, and lived on the fruits and herbs it produced. One day there came a woman, with her two daughters. Serenus, seeing them come up, advised them to withdraw, and to conduct themselves in future as decency required in persons of their sex and condition. The woman, stung at our Saint's charitable remonstrance, retired in confusion, but resolved on revenging the supposed affront. She accordingly wrote to her husband that Serenus had insulted her. He, on receiving her letter, went to the emperor to demand justice, whereupon the emperor gave him a letter to the governor of the province to enable him to obtain satisfaction. The governor ordered Serenus to be immediately brought before him. Serenus, on hearing the charge, answered, "I remember that, some time ago, a lady came into my garden at an unseasonable hour, and I own I took the liberty to tell her it was against decency for one of her sex and quality to be abroad at such an hour." This plea of Serenus having put the officer to the blush for his wife's conduct, he dropped his prosecution. But the governor, suspecting by this answer that Serenus might be a Christian, began to question him, saying, "Who are you, and what is your religion?" Serenus, without hesitating one moment, answered, "I am a Christian. It seemed a while ago as if God rejected me as a stone unfit to enter His building, but He has the goodness to take me now to be placed in it; I am ready to suffer all things for His name, that I may have a part in His kingdom with His Saints" The governor, hearing this burst into rage and said, "Since you sought to elude by flight the emperor's edicts, and have positively refused to sacrifice to the gods, I condemn you for these crimes to lose your head." The sentence was no sooner pronounced than the Saint was carried off and beheaded, on the 23d of February, in 307. Feast Day of Saint Serenus
The Feast Day of Saint Serenus is 23 February. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven. |
Saint Serenus- Short, concise biography of Saint Serenus
- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
- Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Serenus
- Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Serenus - 23 February
- History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
- Date of Death: 307
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Serenus
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Gardener, Martyr
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