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VICTIM OF ROMAN PERSECUTIONTHE CITIZEN. Prince George — Friday, September 12, 1980 — 45
Little-known saint lies in New BrunswickROGERSVILLE. N.B. (CP)
- A little-known saint now- resting in a little-known comer of rural New Brunswick is the main element in a story of a brutal Christian martyrdom that occurred in Rome almost 2.000 years ago.
The bones of St. Theophile, about 10 years old when he met death at the end of a Roman sword, have lain in this small eastern New Brunswick community for 46 years — a rare and precious relic venerated by only a few who know the whereabouts of the “ little saint.”
The saint’s remains are enclosed in a wax effigy to give an impression of the child's appearance when he died. He lies in a glass coffin in a special compartment of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Assumption of Acadia under the care and protection of Trappistine nuns.
The child’s complete skeleton is here, but only the back of the skull and the bones of one hand have been left uncovered by wax. Inside the coffin are a palm leaf and a small vial, or ampulla, of the child’s blood — both symbols of Christian martyrdom.
The nuns say more visitors come to the abbey each year to view the saint. But still, not
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many khow of the Trappist community at Rogersville. or of their treasure.
“ It is unique to have in the province of New Brunswick — the only town in all that area, rare in all of North America, the body of a martyr — and here it is in a place that no one knows much about," said Harold Adams of Toronto, a lay theologian who has researched and written on St. Theophile.
Theophile is a saint by virtue of being a Christian martyr, a small child who gave up his life for Christ.
His remains were discovered in the Roman catacombs around 1820. Archeologists knew he was a martyr because of the small vial of blood, now just greyish dust, left in the tomb with the body.
Adams said little is known about the saint, his life or how
he met his death in what is calculated to be the year 303.
"We do know he died under the 10th persecution, which was the most vicious, by the Roman emperor Diocletian.” Adams said.
There is a grisly legend that the boy was killed by his own father, a Roman officer, when he refused to give up the Christian faith. Adams said he has been unable to find any documentation of the legend, but such a slaughter “would have been common and happened many times under the Romans.”
The wax effigy, applied to the skeleton shortly after it was found in 1820. depicts sword wounds at the throat and forehead. “His throat was slit
and his forehead gouged with a sword.” Adams said.
Thousands of Christians were killed during the Roman persecution. They died horribly — decapitated, dismembered. roasted on grijls and entire populations wer .̂locked in their churches and'burned alive.
Adams said the huge death toll explains why nearly every major church in Europe has bodies of Christian martyrs, but such relics are extremely rare in North America.
Theophile means beloved, or friend, of God. However. Adams explained that since so little is known about the child, the name may have been bestowed by the archeologists who uncovered the tomb.
Because the child's life story is obscure. Theophile has not been awarded a prominent place in the ranks of Catholic saints. But Adams emphasized the underlying importance of martyrdom to religious worship.
"The blood of martyrs is the
seed of Christianity - that is how we approach this little boy.” he said. “His blood is a reminder to us that his faith, strength, love for God and love
for Christ are what kept the church alive in times of great persecution and that is why we hold him. and all martyrs, in such great respect.”
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SPECIAL SPEAKER IS ANNE HARVEYFrom Surrey, B.C., — a wife and mother who's family is now grown. The Lord has enabled her to minister (on a personal level) to various ladies groups.
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urcfj Vertices!Seventh-Day
AdventistChurch
4388-15th Ave Prince George
Pastor: R Bradley 562-2918
Salurday Services 9:15 am -12:00 p m Everyone Welcome
C hr is tian
Sc ience
Services •1011 Ospika Blvd
Sunday Church Service & Sunday School 11 00 a m
Testimony Meetings 1st & 3rd Wed , 8 p m Everyone Welcome
Clerk s phone 563-4355
Bethel Baptist Church
409 Cassiar StreetPastor: E A Hottmann
9:45 a m. English Worship Service
9:45 a m German Bible Study
11 00 a m German Worship Service
11:00 a m Sunday School English
7:20 pm Evening Gospel Service — English
rel 562-7498 — 562-2242
Westwood ' M ennonite
Brethren3590 Dullerm at Ospiks
562-3711
Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.
Biblical Principals on Spiritual Growth.
Nick Willems.
Evening Service 5:45 p.m. Getting Acquainted Night
with Pot Luck Dinner
Lakewood Alliance Church
4201-5th Ave at Ospika Pastor: Rev Les Hamm
564-8737 SUNDAY SERVICES
9:45 a m Family Bible School
11:00am Worship Service 6:30 p.m. Sing In.
Christian
Reformed
Church &20th and Willow
Pastor: Bill Tuininga 564-7197
Worship Services 11 00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.Visitors Welcome
Church of Christ
P.G Secondary School 2901 20th Ave Room 513
SUNDAY 10:00 a.m. Bible Study
11 00 a m Morning Worship WEDNESDAY
7908 Loyola Crescent 7:00 p.m. Bible Study
Minister Curtis Freeman 564-0607
or Alternate Phone 964-7811
Fort George Baptist Church
1600 Johnson St Pastor:
M Morris 9 30 a in
Family Bible Hour Worship Service 11 00 a m
Evening Service 7 00 p m
Other activities as announced For intormation phone 564-6207
Kelly Road
Gospel Chapel
704 i S Kelly Rd
Family Bible Hour Sunday — 11:00 a m
Come — Bring your lamilyl Bring your Inends
Phone 563-4876 or 564-7134 CHRIST IS THE ANSWER
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Army
777 Ospika Blvd Prince George. B C
Capt & Mrs J T Phelan Corps Officers
Sunday Meetings 9 30 am Sunday School 11 00 a m Holiness Mtg
Salvation Meeting 7 30 p mA Warm Welcome
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St.M ichael
UkrainianOrthodox
CongregationWestwood Drive—
Range Road Parish Priest
Very Rev. E. Stefaniuk 563-1386
Services 10:00 a.m.
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1505-5th Avenue 564-4511
Clergy: The Venerable A J Hosking Reverend P A Wadham
Sunday 8:00 a m.Holy Communion
9:00 a.m.Family Communion
11 00 a m Morning Prayer
Wednesday Service at 9:30 a.m.
Nursery Provided
College Heights Baptist Church
5401 Moriarty Ctes • 964-4181
Pastor: Rev E KlingenbergSunday Services
9:45 Sunday School11 00 a m Family
Worship Hour7 00 p.m. Evening Fellowship Hour
Wednesday, 7 30 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer Time
Everyone Welcome
Prince George Gospel Chapel
1590 Queensway
Unto Him shall the gathering of the people be! (Gen 49:10;
SUNDAY:9 00 a m Breaking of Bread10 45 a m Family Bible Hour
Gospel Service 7:00 p m
THURSDAY 7:30 p m Bible Study and
Prayer Meeting
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COMING AGAIN!
Phone 564-7134. 563-4876
The K ing’s Center
1557-3rd Ave 563-8836 or 563-0993
Christian Fellowship Centre
TUESDAY 8:00 pm Bible Study
SATURDAY8 00 p in Cottee House
SUNDAY10 30 a m
Worship Service
7 00 p m Body Ministry and Worship
Lending Library for Video Tapes
Cassette Messages Christian Books
First Baptist Church
Fifth & Gillette St Minster: H. Lance Morgan
SUNDAY Sunday School 9 45 a m Morning Worship Service
11 00 a m. Evening Service 7:30 p m
WEDNESDAY 8:00 p m Prayer &
Bible StudyEveryone Welcome
CatholicChurches
ST GEORGE S UKRAINIANRev Basil Galarnyk
562-3237Corner of Massey & Varner
t S e r v ic e s every S u n d a y 10:00 a.m.
Our Sav iour’s Lutheran Church
Corner of 10th & Douglas St
PASTOR: G Gettes
8:30 a m & 11 a m Regular Sunday Service
9 45 a m Family Sunday School
All Ages Welcome (Includes Adult
Bible Study)
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Church Office 564-4336
Connaught Hil Lutheran Church
(The Lutheran Churcfi Missouri Synod)
933 Patricia Blvd Phone: 562-2777
or 562-6009
PASTOR: Harold H. Witte
9:45 a m. Sunday School & Bible Class
11:00 a m. Worship Service
Central Fellowship
Baptist Church
Services will be atVan Bien Elementary
School (Corn Wilson Cres and Uplands )
563-4473
A Regular Baptist Church of B C
Pastor Stephen Horton
10:15 a m Sunday School 11 00 a m. Morning Service 7:30 p.m. Evening Service
SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL
Rector Rev Gabriel Barcelos In Residence:
Rev Nicholas Cooney
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Salurday Mass 11:15 am
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Confessions Saturday 4-5 p m
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ST ANDREWS UNITED CHURCH
3555-5th Avenue (Just west of the
Spruceland Shopping Centre)
563-9167
Rev. D. Dale Cumming Service 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Nursery Provided
Men’s Breakfast and Bible Study,
Saturday, 7:30 a.m.
Notice to Western Area, St. Andrew's is initiating a new Community of Faith with worship and Sunday School in the College Heights Elementary School, October 5, 11:00 a.m. Children will begin Sunday School at St. Andrew's.
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15th and Edmonton St. 564-6494Minister
J.H. Hans KouwenbergSunday Services
9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.Nursery, Kindergarten &
Baby fold provided563-3410 or 563-8988
ST. MARY S1100 Freeman St 564-4097
Rev Jim Larkin, Pastor Rev V LaPlante, O M I Rev J Pagnon O M I
Sunday Masses:9 00. 10:30.
12:00 & 7:00 p m Also Saturday 7pm
Confessions: Sal 4-4 30 6:15-6:45 p.m.
CHRIST OURSAVIOUR Hart Highway
Rev. J B O Rourke. O P 4514 Austin Road West
962-8352 SUNDAY MASSES 9 :00 & 11 00 a m
Saturday 7:00 p.m
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CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Cathedral Ave Hwy 16 West
Box 7000 964-7179 Res 964-4898
Father Nicholas J Forde O M l
SUNDAY MASSES 9 a.m., 1 T a m. & 5 00 p.m.
The Church in Blackburn
MT. TABOR UNITED
Top of Bonnet Hill —
Old Giscome Hwy
Church Service 11:15 a.m.Minister:
TOM MERCER 963-7083
Central Church of God
1804 Central StreetPastor Robert Terry
Sun School H Worship 10 30 a m
Prayer & Bible Study Wed 7 30 p in
Junior Club Friday 7 30 p m
For further intormation call 564-6411
K N O X U N I T E D C H U R C H
1448-5th Ave (Downtown Church)
Minister Rev Allen I V Dawe.
B A . B D
Morning Worship 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School 9:30 a m. Nersery Provided
A friendly church in a growing city
Everyone Welcome
Church of the Nazarene
IWelcomes You
at 15th & Ospikai
Sunday School 10:00 a m Family Worship 11 00 a m
EvenmgFellOwship7:00p mPastor: C M Geiger
562-6786 *
The Salvation i Army
Harbour Light835-3rd Ave
Capt & Mrs F. Phelps * Officer in Charge
Sunday 11:00 a.m. & 6:30 pm Tuesday Film 7:00 p.m. •
Thurs. - Sat.Gospel Service at 7:00 p.m. !
«Everyone Welcome
For oonations to this work or • enquiries regarding program | call 563-6819
Emmanuel United Church
Balsam Road opposite Ski Hill
Serving Area North of Nechako River
9:30 Church ServiceMinister Tom Mercer
963-7083
Full Gospel Tabernacle1055 Ospika Blvd
563-1003 PASTOR: T A OSIOWY
Phone: 563-2363 Schedule:SUNDAY
10:30am Worship and Bible time for all ages
7:00 pm kvemng Fellowship Service
TUESDAY Fundamental Studies for New Believers 7 30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY8 00 p m
Home fellowship Studies Phone for location
THURSDAY 7 30 p m. Youth Meeting
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