Image: Osip Semenovich Chirikov, icon of St. Theodore Tyron, 1891. Abramov’s icon museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. (source)
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This site follows the traditional Roman calendar of 1962, as found in the 1962 Roman Missal used at the Traditional Latin Mass. Some feast days fall on different dates than in the General Roman Calendar of 1969, revised after the Second Vatican Council.
Esto fidelis usque ad mortem, et dabo tibi coronam vitæ.
Apocalypse 2:10
Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.
About Today
On November 9 the 1962 calendar keeps the Dedication of the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior, the Lateran, the cathedral of the Pope and mother of all churches. The Mass is that of the Dedication, and the Church also makes a commemoration of St. Theodore, martyr.
His Life
Theodore was a young soldier in the Roman army, serving at Amasea in Pontus. When the persecution under the emperors came, around the year 306, he was ordered to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods and refused, confessing Christ openly before the magistrates.
He was given time to reconsider, but he used it to remain steadfast. He was then burned alive for the faith. The Church has honored him for many centuries as a martyr who kept faith with his true Commander to the end.
A Lesson for Today
Theodore shows that fidelity is proved by perseverance. Our Lord’s promise to the faithful unto death is the crown of life, and the saints win it by holding fast, one day at a time, to what they know to be true.
Sancte Theodore, ora pro nobis.
St. Theodore, pray for us.