Decem-20-acem Sogglem Santam
Exsurge Domine, et Liberal Nos A Malo! ("Arise Lord, & Deliver us from evil!")
Arise, O Lord! How long will Thou permit that Sin, Evil & Injustice, be exalted, & allow evildoers to thread down, & supplant, Virtue, Goodness & Justice, to pass off evil as good, & good as evil, lies as truth, & truth as lies, thieveries & robberies as lawfulness, & lawfulness as thieveries & robberies?
«Ecce enim dies veniet succensa quasi caminus: et erunt omnes superbi et omnes facientes impietatem stipula: et inflammabit eos dies veniens, dicit Dominus exercituum, quae non derelinquet eis radicem et germen. Et orietur vobis timentibus nomen meum sol justitiae, et sanitas in pennis ejus: et egrediemini, et salietis sicut vituli de armento. Et calcabitis impios, cum fuerint cinis sub planta pedum vestrorum, in die qua ego facio, dicit Dominus exercituum.»
(«For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: & all the proud, & all that do wickedly shall be stubble: & the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root , nor branch. But unto you that fear my name, the Sun of justice shall arise, & health in His wings: & you shall go forth, & shall leap like calves of the heir. be ashes under the sole of your feet in the day that I do this, saith the Lord of hosts»)
Menology Entry for December 20:
Our Lady of Molene: I'm not able to make sense of the often repeated accounts of Our Lady, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God & of His Saints, under this title & invocation, as the account in two versions, confuses two & three different, & far apart places: Molesme in Burgundy, Langres in Alsace, & the Isle of Molene in Brittany;
Vigil of the Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle; 
The Holy Martyrs of Africa, Saints Crescentius & Companions, their history is lost;
The Holy Martyrs of Alexandria, Saints Ammon, Zeno, Ptolemy, Ingenius, & Theophilus, soldiers, who, standing near the tribunals, & seeing a Christian trembling under the torture & almost on the point of apostatizing, endeavored to encourage him by their looks & by signs, & when, for this reason, the whole people raised an outcry against them, they rushed forward, & declared themselves Christians; by their victory, Christ, who had given to them such fortitude, triumphed most gloriously;
The Holy Martyrs of Antioch, Saints Eugene & Macarius, priests, who were tortured, & then exiled into the Roman Province of Mauritania, now divided between the Arab Settler-Colonies of Algeria & Morocco, after being released from exile in a general amnesty by Julian the Apostate, they returned to Antioch, where they were compelled to reproach him for his impieties, for which they were put to the sword;
The Holy Martyrs of Armenia Saints Abraham, Coren, & Companions, who, refusing the demand of the Iranian invaders to apostatize to Zoroastrianism, were tortured, & murdered, however, Abraham survived, living as a hermit, before he was forced to accept the Bishopric of Bznunik;
The Holy Martyrs of Rome, Saints Liberatus & Bajulus, under Claudius II Gothicus;
St. Gabriel Olivares Roda, Franciscan priest, murdered by Communist bandits, December 20, 1936 A.D. in Viator, Almeria in Andalucia, Spain, not yet canonized by a Catholic Pope;
St. Julius, martyr at Gelduba in Thrace;
St. Peter of the Little Chair, or "de la Cadireta," Martyr; companion of St. Raymond of Penafort in Barcelona. In 1258 A.D., Peter was appointed Inquisitor of Spain. His two predecessors, Pons de Planedis & Bernard de Traversa, had both been martyred. Peter enjoyed the longest career of the three; he worked for 20 years before he was murdered at Urgell, December 20, 1277 A.D., whereafter, he was laid to rest next to the other two in the cathedral;
St. Thomas, monk murdered at Dover by pirates for refusing to give them the altar vessels of the church he served;
St. Aldara Eriz or Hildauta Erici, of Visigothic descent, Countess of Lugo by birth, Countess of Sobrado by marriage, she was infertile for many years, but after an angel appeared to her husband Guttere, they freed their serfs, built a chapel, gave away half their wealth, she thereafter had many children, including St. Rudesind, or Rosendus, founder of the monasteries of Caaveiro & of Celanova, Bishop of Mondonedo, & thereafter, of Dume; when she was widowed, she co-founded, with St. Rudesind, the Benedictine convent of Santa Maria of Villanueva near Cellanova, & then joined the house as a nun; her daughter Alosinda served as her abbess, died in the Lord, December 20, 941 A.D.;
St. Alexander of Verona, Franciscan friar & preacher, wonderworker or thaumaturge, with the ability to levitate when in prayer, healed the sick by making the sign of the cross over them, he died in the Lord, on December 20, 1486, a date that he himself predicted and communicated to his companion Zackarinus;
St. Attala of Strasbourg, niece of St. Odilia of Alsace, Abbess at Strasbourg, Alsace, for 20 years, renowned for her piety, prudence & charity, died in the Lord, December 20, 741 A.D.;
St. Conrad, one of the earliest disciples of St. Francis of Assisi, by whom he was sent to establish the order in north Germany, doing so at Hildesheim in Saxony, where, renowned for his piety, virtuous life & miracle, his cultus survived until the Deformation;
St. Dominic, Bishop of Brescia, Confessor;
St. Dominic of Sylos, Benedictine Prior of the monastery of St. San Millán of Cogolla in the Kingdom of Navarre, which was despoiled & confiscated by King Garcia III Sanchez, he & his fellow expellees took refuge with King Fernand I of Castile, who gave them the decrepit Monastery of St Sebastian in Sylos or Silos, which he revived; it, & the settlement around it, was then called St. Dominic's, after him; he was a greater healer & wonderworker (thaumaturge), & raised funds to ransom Christians kidnapped by the Mahomettan Infidels; his abbatial staff was used to bless Spanish queens & was kept by their beds when they were in labour; St Joan of Aza & Guzmán prayed at his shrine to conceive the child whom she called Dominic, who founded the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans (link);
St. Eugenia Felicia Bossi, Virgin; born in Milan, Bossi, attracted by the Franciscan ideal, entered the Milanese monastery of the Poor Clares of St. Ursula, where she made her religious profession and distinguished herself for her spirit of regular observance. However, she spent the best part of her life, the one we know best, in the monastery of the Most Holy Body of Our Lord God Jesus Christ (Corpus Domini), in Pesaro, founded by the Lady Battista, daughter of Anthony of Montefeltro & wife of Galeazzo Malatesta, lord of Pesaro; she was brought there together with other nuns by St. Felicia Meda, whom she succeeded as abbess.
St. John of Capestrano, who presided over the election, praised her prudence, zeal, solicitude, goodness & other virtues in the letter of confirmation, dated 30 October 1444. Bossi governed, more than with words, with the effectiveness of her example, &, in addition to the spirit of union with God & that of sacrifice for others, she was admired for her great humility towards the other nuns & an intense fervor in the worship of the Lord.
She died in Pesaro, December 20, 1450 A.D.;
St. Fachanan, Bishop of Kilfenora in Ireland, he belonged to the ancient princely race of the Corcu Loigde, he founded a monastery in the sixth century at Kilfenora, of which he was then made first bishop;
St. Freoch of Cloon, Irish Saint, his history seems lost, he was uncle of St. Midabaria & of St. Berach of Termonbarry;
St. Holger, Benedictine monk in the monastery of New Corbie in Saxony, made auxiliary bishop to St. Adelgar, who died May 9, 909 A.D., and Holger succeeded as 4th Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, known for his strict church discipline; died, per St. Albanus Butler, December 20, 916 A.D. in Bremen, others give December 29, discrepancy may be due to difference between Julian & Gregorian Calendars (link);
St. John of Molia, commander of the Mercedarian convent of St. Lazarus in Saragossa, Spain, wonderworker or thaumaturge, Prophet, at his death, a wonderful celestial light shone on his cell, as a sign of his holiness;
St. Lawrence Company, Mercedarian, he was held captive by Mahomettan Infidels for fifteen years, he was later the Master-General of the Mercedarians, died December 20, 1479 A.D.;
St. Malou or Madeloup, priest in Hautvillers, France;
St. Paul, hermit on Mt. Latrus near the city of Miletus in Caria, Anatolia, Eastern Greece, where he later founded a monastery, died December 20, 956 A.D.;
From St. Alban Butler: Paul's father, who was an officer in the imperial army, being slain on board the Grecian fleet, in an engagement with the Mahometans, his mother Eudocia retired from Pergamus, in Asia, which was the place of his nativity, into Bithynia, taking her two sons with her. Basil, who was the eldest, rejecting the proposal of an advantageous match, took the monastic habit upon Mount Olympus in that country; but soon after, for the sake of greater solitude, retired to the laura founded by St. Elias, & afterwards to Brachiana, near Mount Latrus. When their mother was dead, he engaged his younger brother to embrace the same state of life. Though young, he had experienced the world sufficiently to understand the emptiness & dangers of its enjoyments. He saw that even if it bestows on a man all things that it can give, he is only like a rich man who is possessed of stately houses, abundance of gold & silver, & enjoys all manner of attendance; yet is afflicted with inward pains & distempers, under which neither the whole tribe of his relations, nor his riches, nor strength, nor diversions can ease his pains: nothing at least of all this can cleanse him from sin. But the more this visible world, & the false rest which it affords, seem to cherish the body, so much the more do they sharpen the disorders of the soul, & increase her illness. This the pious youth seriously considered, & resolved to disengage himself from the cares of this life, & devote himself to the Lord, crying to him night & day. Basil recommended our saint to the care & instruction of the abbot of Caria atop Mount Latrus, and returning himself to Mount Olympus, he died abbot of the laura of St. Elias. Paul was indefatigable in the exercise of holy prayer, & having no other desire than to gain heaven, laboured seriously to subdue his body by mortification. He never lay down to sleep, but only leaned his head against a stone or tree. No unprofitable word was ever heard from his mouth: & the sight of the fire, which put him in mind of hell, drew tears from his eyes without intermission whenever he was employed in the kitchen. It was his desire, for the sake of greater solitude & austerity, to lead an eremitical life; but his abbot thinking him too young, refused him leave so long as he lived; but this he obtained after his death. His first cell was a cave on the highest part of Mount Latrus, where, for some weeks, he had no other subsistence than green acorns, which caused him at first to vomit even to blood. After eight months he was called back by the abbot to Caria, but soon after allowed to pursue his vocation, & chose a new habitation on the highest & most craggy part of the mountain. The first three years he suffered most grievous temptations; but overcame them by steadiness in his exercises, & especially by assiduous prayer. A countryman sometimes brought him a little coarse food; but he mostly lived on what grew wild on the mountain. At first he wanted water; but God produced a spring with a constant stream near his dwelling. The reputation of his sanctity being spread through the neighbouring provinces, several persons chose to live near him, & built there a laura of cells. Paul, who had been careless of himself as to all corporal necessaries, was solicitous that no provisions should be wanting to those that lived under his direction. After twelve years, regretting to see his solitude too much broken into, he secretly withdrew into a wild part of the mountains, where he had no company but that of wild beasts. However, he visited his brethren from time to time, to comfort and encourage them; & he sometimes led them into the forests to sing the divine praises together. Being once asked why he appeared sometimes joyful, at other times sad, he answered: "When nothing diverts my thoughts from God, my heart swims in excess of overflowing joy, insomuch that I often forget my food, & all earthly things; but it is an affliction to live amidst the distraction of worldly conversation." On certain necessary occasions he disclosed something of the wonderful communications which passed between his soul & God, & of the heavenly favours which he received in contemplation. Desiring to find a closer retirement, he passed to the isle of Samos, and there concealed himself in a cave upon Mount Cerces. But he was soon discovered, and many flocking to him, he reestablished three lauras, which had been ruined by the Mahomettan Infidels in that island. The importunate entreaties of the monks of his laura at Latrus prevailed upon him to return to his former cell on the top of that mountain. There he lived in the practice of penance & contemplation, but refused not instructions to those that desired them. Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenetta wrote frequently to him, asked his advice in affairs of importance, & had always reason to repent when he did not follow it. Popes, bishops, & princes often sent messages to him. Such was his tenderness for the poor, that he gave them every part of his own coarse meat & clothes which it was in his power to retrench: & once he would have sold himself for a slave to procure assistance for certain persons in deep distress, had he not been prevented. Towards the end of his life he drew up rules for his laura. On December 6, 956 A.D., foreseeing that his death drew near, he came down from his cell to his laura, said mass more early than usual, then took to his bed, being seized with a violent fever. He spent his last moments in prayer, & in repeating tender instructions to his monks till his happy death, which fell out on December 15, 956 A.D., on which day he is commemorated in the Greek Synaxarium. Papebroke tells us, he found his name in some Greek calendars on the 21st of December;
St. Peter Massalenus, Camaldolese Benedictine monk at the monastery of St. Michael of Murano, Venice in 1410, died in the Lord, December 20, 1453 A.D.;
Patriarch St Philogonius of Antioch, who was called by the will of God from the practice of law to the government of that church; with the saintly bishop Alexander & other auxiliaries, he engaged the first combat for the Catholic faith against Arius, &, being renowned for merits, rested in the Lord; his festival was commemorated by St. John Chrysostom with an excellent panegyric;
St. Ursicinus or Ursanne, an Irish missionary, together with St Columbus; being driven out of their monastery of Luxeuil in Gaul, they, together with Saints Gallus (Gallen), Sigisbert, Fromond, & others, made their way into Italy, where they established the monastery of Bobbio; Saints Ursicinus & Fromond, however settled at places near the Doubs valley in the Jura Mountains; after his death, St. Vandregisilo (St. Wandrille) collected his fellow hermits into the monastery of St. Ursanne, under the Rule of Columbanus;
Pope Saint Zephyrinus, Iso-Martyr, died in the Lord, December 20, 217 A.D., his liturgical feast is August 26;
UNCANONIZED:
Vincent Dominic Romano, priest of Torre del Greco, Naples, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, died December 20, 1831 A.D.;
UNCERTAIN:
Michael Piaszczynski, priest, director of the seminary of Lomza, murdered by Nazi Infidels in Sachsenhausen, it seems that he was a Panreligionist or "Omnist";
And elsewhere in divers places, many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
V: Omnes vos Angeli et Sancti Dei:
R: Orate pro nobis!
