SEVEN MACCABEE BROTHERS, saints - Early Christian sarcophagus containing the relics of the S. M. B., rediscovered beneath the high altar of the basilica of St. Peter in Chains on 2 September 1876. The scenes depicted there, from left to right, are: Raising of Lazarus, Multiplication of the loaves and fishes, Samaritan woman at the well, Announcement to Peter of his denial, Traditio Legis - Rome, basilica of St. Peter in Chains.
Bayers (v.), killed for the faith in the prisons of Paris on 2 and 3 September 1792 and beatified by Pius XI on 17 October 1926.
After the throne had been overthrown with the assassination of Louis XVI (10 August 1792) and the "insurrectionary Commune" had been set up on the same day, the fury of the revolutionaries began to arrest numerous laypeople and especially members of the clergy, who had refused to take the oath imposed by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, condemned by Pius VI on 10 March 1791. The blessed, taken prisoner, were shut up in the convents of the Carmelites, in the Seminary of St. Firmin, in the abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés and in the prison of La Force, and in the afternoon of the 2nd and the night of the 3rd of September they were all slaughtered in various ways: 95 in the convent of the Carmelites, 72 at St. Firmin, 21 at St. Germain, 3 at La Force. At St. Firmin some were thrown from the windows and left to the cruel rage of the bloodthirsty mob. To the group of 191 belong, besides the 3 bishops, many priests and many religious and 4 laypeople. In the prisons the scenes of the catacombs were renewed. Unable to celebrate Mass, they united themselves in spirit with the one celebrated by the Pope in Rome, they gave themselves to prayer and pious reading, and in the supreme moment they had absolved one another and had recited the litanies and the prayers of the dying.
Bibliography5 workslist and qualification of the individuals in the decree on the martyrdom, of 1 October 1926, in AAS, 18 (1926), pp. 415-25 and in Bénédictin
BIBL.: list and qualification of the individuals in the decree on the martyrdom, of 1 October 1926, in AAS, 18 (1926), pp. 415-25 and in Bénédictins de Paris, Vies des saints et des bienheureux, IX, Paris 1950, pp. 57-70. For the accounts, besides the civil and ecclesiastical histories of the French Revolution, one may consult: G. Lenôtre, Les massacres de Septembre, Paris 1908; J. Perrin, Les martyrs de Septembre 1792, ibid. 1919; G. Lenôtre, La maison des Carmes, ibid. 1933; J. Hérissay, Les journées de Septembre, Paris 1945; for the martyrs in the individual prisons, or of the individual religious Orders, see the excellent bibliography in: Vies des saints cited above, pp. 70-71.
Testore, Celestino. “Settembre, martiri di, beati.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, coll. 446–447. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/settembre-martiri-di-beati.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Settembre, martiri di, beati.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 446–447. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/settembre-martiri-di-beati.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec11_settembre_martiri_di_beati,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Settembre, martiri di, beati},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XI},
pages = {446--447},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/settembre-martiri-di-beati}
}
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