St. Vincent of Saragozza
Deacon andMartyr


January 22

304

St. Vincent, a deacon, was apprehended with his bishop Valerius during a persecution by the governor of Spain, Dacian. Valerius was banished, but Vincent was submitted to the fiercest of tortures. His flesh was torn by iron hooks, he was placed on a red hot gridiron and roasted, he was thrown into a dungeon strewn with broken pottery-----yet he still survived. At last his friends were allowed to visit him. They prepared a bed, and as they laid him on it he died.