King Josias obeys the Holy Spirit's prompting to purge the land of false religion
Only two days after the commemoration of the prophet St. Naum, the traditional Roman Martyrology today offers for our veneration another of the holy prophets of the Old Testament -- St. Sophonias, whose book is another of the Minor Prophets. Indeed, this month and September both have a higher number than usual of Old Testament saints' days. St. Sophonias holds a place of honor as second from the top of the list of this day's saints in
the Martyrology, immediately after the great apostle of the Orient:
This Day, the Third Day of December
St. Francis Xavier, confessor, of the Society of Jesus, who died on the 2d of this month.
In Judea, the holy prophet Sophonias.
