Communion of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian

Wisdom 3:4-6

And though in the sight of men they suffered torments, God hath tried them: as gold in the furnace He hath proved them, and as a victim of a holocaust He hath received them.

Haydock

Verse 6. Holocaust. The sufferings (M.) which they have voluntarily endured, cause them to be pleasing to God. H. Zac. xiii. 9. — Time of judgment, or of death. C. — Sept. “at the time of their visitation, they shall shine, and,” &c. v. 7. Matt. xiii. 43. H. Zac. xii. 6.

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