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SAINT ADRIAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT
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ADRIAN  , one of the praetorian
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guards of the
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emperor
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Galerius Maximian, who, becoming a convert to
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Christianity, was martyred at
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Nicomedia on the 4th of
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March 303 . It is said that while presiding over the
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torture of a
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band of Christians he was so amazed at their courage that he publicly confessed his faith . He was imprisoned, and the next
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day his limbs were struck off on an
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anvil, and he was then beheaded, dying in his wife's, St Natalia's, arms . St
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Adrian's festival, with that of his wife, is kept on the 8th of
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September . He is specially a
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patron of soldiers, and is much reverenced in
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Flanders,
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Germany and the
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north of
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France . He is usually represented armed, with an anvil in his hands or at his feet .

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