Januarius (ST or SAN GENthe period e)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

ST., or SAN GENthe period e period NARO, a martyr of the Christian faith abroad. road. He under Diocletian. Bishop of Benevento Studies " udies" (18 in the 3rd century. According to the Neapolitan ( ( 1887 1890));; 887); tradition, he was taken pri- 890); "St soner at Nola; and the place of his mar- ( 1891); 891); "In tyrdom, in 305, was Pozzuoli. His body the Sargasso is preserved at Naples, in the crypt of ing of of The the cathedral, and in a chapel of the ( 1900); 900); "F same church are also preserved the head ( 1912); 912) "A of the martyr, and two phials supposed Died 1913. ed 1918. to contain his blood. On three festivals JAPAN JAPAN of each year-the chief of which is the Pacific day of the martyrdom, Sept. 19, the others the first Sunday evening in May including eluding J and Dec. 16, as well as on occasions of public danger or calamity, the head and Karafuto the phials of the blood are carried in 260,738 0,788 solemn procession to the high altar of clusive Japan of pan sive of Kor the cathedral, or of the church of St. The e populatio Clare, where after prayer of longer or shorter duration, the blood, on the phials 000, and , and of being brought into contact with the head, 77,000,000 The total e total por 000,000. is believed to liquefy and is presented for four large ar large s the veneration of the people, or for the with an th an area conviction of the doubter. It occasion- Physical Physical Fe ally happens that a considerable time elapses before the liquefaction takes pan a huge appear appear place, and sometimes it altogether fails. auge chain! from a The latter is regarded as an omen of the vanced need from worst import. This chain