"The wicked ... worship stones and brute beasts instead of God, revering very many things, one here another there, whi…"

"From their own labors and wicked notions men have accepted gods of wood and stone. They have made them of bronze and …"

"There was once among men a shining light of the sun when the harmonious ray of the prophets was being spread abroad, …"

"O MEN, why do ye vainly think on things Too lofty, as if ye immortal were?"

"In the city of Xilinxian, in the province of Guangxi in China, remembrance of St. Agnes Cao Kuiying, martyr, who, alr…"

"In Mauthausen, Austria, we remember B. Marcello Callo, martyr, who, a young native of Rennes, comforted his fellow pr…"

"Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, who, while still a girl in Rome, offered the supreme witness of faith and c…"

"In Alexandria, Egypt, remembrance of St. Apollonia, who, after numerous and horrible tortures inflicted by her persec…"

"In Oberkaufungen in Hesse, Germany, Saint Cunigonde: she brought many benefits to the Church together with her husban…"

"Memorial of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, arrested with other young catechumens in Carthage under Emperor S…"