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Title: Little lives of the great saints
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Murray, John O'Kane, 1847-1885
Subjects: Christian saints
Publisher: New York, P. J. Kenedy
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e Church usually celebrates thefestival of a saint on the day of his death, which 1 It is to be noted that there is a difference of four years be-tween the exact date of the birth of Christ and the date given byour common era. The common era was established by the Ca-tholic Church towards the commencement of the sixth century,as a mark of respect to Jesus Christ. Dennis the Little, in com-puting back from his own time, endeavored to fix the epoch ofthe birth of our Lord, which, by mistake, he made to correspondto the year 4714 of the Julian period. That was an error of furyears. St. John the Baptist really died in the thirty-second year ofthe age of Christ, which, according to our common era, is A.D. 28.Our Lord was thirty-three years of age at His death, yet our com-mon era makes that blessed event A.D. 29. And though this isthe year 1SS0 of our common era, it is, strictly speaking, 1884years since the birth of Christ. 2 John is from the Hebrew, and signifies the gracious gift ofGod.
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Little Lives of the Great Saints. 6$ is his birthday to eternal life. But our nobleSaint is excepted from this rule, because he wassanctified in his mothers womb, and came intothe world pure and holy.3 The birth of this illustrious man, who was sentas a pioneer to prepare the way for Christ, maybe ranked with the wonders of history. It is mi-raculous, and was ushered in with many prodigies. There was, says the sacred writer,4 in thedays of Herod, King of Judea, a certain priestnamed Zachary, of the course of Abia,5 and hiswife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her nameElizabeth. And they were both just before God, walkingin all the commandments and justifications of theLord without blame. And they had no son; for that Elizabeth wasbarren, and they both were well advanced inyears. And it came to pass, when he executed thepriestly function in the order of his course beforeGod, according to the custom of the priestly office,it was his lot to offer incense, going into the Tem- 3 The Feas

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