MARCH 13, 2011
DAILY PRAYER WITH REGNUM CHRISTI
OVERCOMING TEMPTATION
March 13, 2011
First Sunday of Lent
Father José LaBoy, LC
Matthew 4: 1-11
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted
by the devil. He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards
he was famished. The tempter came and said to him, "If you are the
Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread." But he
answered, "It is written, 'One does not live by bread alone, but by
every word … [Altro]

Son of a Roman army veteran. Conscientious objector – when drafted into the Roman army, he refused to serve on the grounds that his faith prohibited it. Martyred for this stand.
274
Died
beheaded in 295 at Thebeste, Numidia, North Africa
buried at Carthage

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

Readings

My army is the army of God, and I … [Altro]