June 15: Saints Guy, Crescentia and Modestus
From these three saints a good lesson is to be learned. Crescentia, Guy's nurse and her husband, Modestus, raised Guy in sanctity. Guy's father delivered Guy over to be perverted to idolatry, but Guy, Modestus and Crescentia escaped only to be martyred elsewhere.
Let us read what Rev. Butler has to say about these saints: The pagan Romans were solicitous that no slave should have access to their children who did not speak with perfect elegance and purity of language; and shall not a Christian be as careful as to manners and virtue? It is a fatal mistake to imagine that infants are ever too young to be infected with the contagion of vice. No age receives deeper impressions, or observes more narrowly everything that passes in others; nor is anything so easily or so insensibly imbibed as a spirit of vanity, pride, revenge, obstinacy, or sloth; or harder to ever be corrected. What a happiness for an infant to be formed from the mother's breast as it were naturally to all virtue, and for the spirit of simplicity, meekness, goodness, and piety to be molded in its tender frame.
PRAYER: Saint Crescentia, help all who have the care of children to remember that their first duty is to lead these children to heaven. Amen.
PRAYER: Saint Modestus, inspire all husbands to work with their wives and lead them on the road to sanctity, even if that road ends in martyrdom. Amen.
PRAYER: Saint Guy, inspire all guys, especially young boys, to learn the science of the saints so well that they may reject all evil, even if brought to them by their parents. Amen.
