Janarius

One of my crazy thoughts trading cards (kind-o-like Pokimon etc ) for martyrs and saints..collect them all..Christian martyr about whom little is known
he was a bishop of Brenevent and was martyred about the year 305..legend relates his index finger was accidently cut off as he was about to be beheaded , however he simply replaced the finger which was instantly healed.
During his execution it is told that his blood was caught and forever preseved.A phail purporting to contain the saints dried blood is preserved in Naples catherdral. A ceremony is preformed in public during which this holy substance can be observed by all true belivers to miraculously to liquefy..
It's fasinating there's so much in our culture still from these guys..for example the Catherine Wheel ( the fire work ) come from Catherine of Alexandria the wheel was the instrument by which she was to be killed apon...