# Urticinus, A Pious Christian, Beheaded With The Ax, At Ravenna, A. D. 99.

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Next to Timothy is placed Urticinus or Ursinius,
a physician at Ravenna in Italy. Having been reported
to the Judge Paulinus, as being a Christian,
he was tortured in manifold ways for the name of
Christ. Having borne all with constancy, and still
refusing to sacrifice to the gods of the heathen, he
was finally sentenced by the judge, to be beheaded
with the ax.

When Urticinus received this sentence of death,
he began to tremble and shake before the impending
death, and to deliberate with himself, whether
he should deny Christ, or how he might the most
easily escape death.

But while he was thus counseling with flesh and
blood, one of the company of Judge Paulinus, whose
name was Vitalus, stepped up to him from behind,
and strengthened him with these words: “My beloved
brother in Christ, Urticinus, who, as a faithful
physician, by thy potions, didst so often and so
happily restore to health the sick, take heed, lest
by thy denial thou plunge thyself into eternal death
and damnation.”

Through this admonition Urticinus regained such
courage, that he joyfully prepared for death, and,
having of his own accord offered his neck to the ax,
he thus, through the separation of his head from the
body, came to a godly and noble end. See concerning
this, A. Mell., 1st book, van de Hist. der
Vervolg., fol. 18, col. 3 and 4, according Venant.
Fortunat., lib. 4. Vitæ S. Martini. Hieronym.
Rub. Hist. Raven., lib. 1. Beda, Usuard. Ado.
Vincent, Spec. Hist., lib. 9, cap. 50. Volateran.
in Antrhopal. Pet. Dam., in Serm. de S. S. Vitali
and Valeria.



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