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STS. EUSTACHIUS AND COMPANIONS

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Martyrs under the Emperor Hadrian, in the year 118. Feast in the West, 20
September; in the East, 2 November. Emblems: a crucifix, a stag, an oven.

The legend relates that Eustachius (before baptism, Placidus), a Roman general
under Trajan, while still a heathen, saw a stag coming towards him, with a
crucifix between its horns; he heard a voice telling him that he was to suffer
much for Christ's sake. He received baptism, together with his wife Tatiana (or
Trajana, after baptism Theopista) and his sons, Agapius and Theopistus. The
place of the vision is said to have been Guadagnolo, between Tibur and Praeneste
(Tivoli and Palestrina), in the vicinity of Rome. Through adverse fortune the
family was scattered, but later reunited. For refusing to sacrifice to the idols
after a victory, they suffered death in a heated brazen bull. Baronius (Ann.
Eccl., ad an. 103, 4) would identify him with Placidus mentioned by Josephus
Flavius as a general under Titus.



The Acts are certainly fabulous, and recall the similar story in the Clementine
Recognitions. They are a production of the seventh century, and were used by St.
John Damascene, but the veneration of the saint is very old in both the Greek
and Latin Churches. He is honoured as one of the Holy Helpers, is invoked in
difficult situations, and is patron of the city of Madrid and of hunters. The
church of Sant' Eustachio in Rome, title of a cardinal-deacon, existed in 827,
according to the Liber Pontificalis, but perhaps as early as the time of Gregory
the Great (d. 604). It claims to possess the relics of the saint, some of which
are said to be at St-Denis and at St-Eustache in Paris. An island in the Lesser
Canilles and a city in Canada bear his name.


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Mershman, F. (1909). Sts. Eustachius and Companions. In The
Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05627a.htm

MLA citation. Mershman, Francis. "Sts. Eustachius and Companions." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05627a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Marcia L.
Bellafiore.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor.
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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