April 22nd
St Tharba (d. 341), Martyr; Persia; Feast day April 22nd

"Most impudent of men, how could you again entertain such a dishonest thought?  For me courageously to die is to live; but life, purchased by baseness, is worse than any death."

St Epipodius (d. 177), Martyr; Lyon, France; Feast day April 22nd

"You, after having defiled yourselves with pleasures like brute beasts, find nothing at last but a sorrowful death; whereas we, when you destroy us, enter into eternal life."

"I confess that Jesus Christ is God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit.  It is but reasonable that I should resign my soul to Him who has created me and redeemed me.  This is not losing my life, but changing it into a better."

St Alexander (d. 177), Martyr; Lyon, France; Feast day April 22nd

"The God Whom I adore, and Who alone is the Almighty and Eternal God, I trust will give me grace to confess Him to my last breath, as the guardian of my faith and resolution."