Roman Martyrs in a Louisville Church

American Catholic History

Noelle & Tom Crowe

History, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Saints Bonosa and Magnus were martyred in Rome in either the third or fourth century. Their bones rested peacefully in the catacombs until 1700, when they were given to the Cistercian sisters in Anagni, a town near Rome, for veneration in their chapel. When the Kingdom of Italy conquered the Papal States in the late 19th century, Pope Leo XIII needed a new place to keep these old relics safe. Fortunately, the pastor of St. Martin of Tours parish in Louisville, Kentucky had written to Rome requesting relics. Pope Leo XIII sent the skeletons of Bonosa and Magnus, and since 1901, these two Roman martyrs have been venerated safely and peacefully in Louisville. Learn more about the parish of St. Martin of Tours, and how anti-Catholicism almost destroyed that church when it was only two years old.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to American Catholic History, brought to you by the support of listeners like you.
0:11.0	If you like this podcast and would like to support our work, please visit American Catholic
0:16.0	History.org slash support. I'm Noelle Heister Crow. And I'm Tom Crow.
0:21.7	Today we're talking about two Roman martyrs whose skeletal remains ended up in a historic
0:26.7	Louisville, Kentucky church.
0:28.5	Now, this subject was actually mentioned to us on the SQPN Discord by a user named Eric
0:35.8	Bear.
0:36.3	So Eric Bear, thank you for the story. Yes, indeed. Louisville, our
0:39.9	longtime listeners will recall, is where the diocesan Sea of Bardstown moved in 1841. So Louisville,
0:46.6	dating back to its 1808 founding in Bardstown, is one of the five oldest dioceses in the United States,
0:53.0	and it is the oldest inland diocese in
0:55.5	the country. Every other diocese, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston were along the
1:00.4	East Coast. So the Archdiocese of Louisville has its own storied history. It has figured in a
1:06.0	number of our earlier episodes, and there are still many stories to tell, like the life and work of the
1:12.1	saintly first bishop of Barsetown and Louisville, Benedict Joseph Flage.
1:15.8	I honestly can't believe we haven't done that episode.
1:17.5	I know, seriously. And we'll talk about Louisville and we talk about the Bloody Monday riots
1:22.5	of 1855. In fact, today's topic crosses past with the story of the 1855 Bloody Monday riots in Louisville,
1:30.1	but we'll get into that later.
1:32.0	Right.
1:32.5	And Louisville is the home base of our pilgrimage to the Kentucky Holy Land and Bourbon country.
1:37.2	It's a surprisingly Catholic city, and today's topic is woven into the story of Catholic Louisville.
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