On the day of 19 January
At Smyrna in Asia, the passion of Saint Germanicus, martyr of Phildephia, who, in the time of the emperors Mark Anthony and Lucius Aurelius, was a disciple of Saint Polycarp whom he preceded in martyrdom, when, condemned by the judge in the flowering comeliness of youth, he shut out his fear for the frailty of his body by the grace of God and deliberately provoked the wild beast that had been prepared for him.
