Jews and the Death of Saint Cassian of Imola

Saint Cassian of Imola was a fourth century Christian martyr and the bishop of Brescia who was killed by the order of either the Roman Emperor Julian – who despite claims to the contrary was no friend of the jews – or Diocletian, because he refused to sacrifice to the gods despite teaching pagan schoolchildren who did. (1) His death was fairly gruesome as the Encyclopaedia Britannica explains:

‘But Cassian’s death was torturous because of it: the only instruments the students had at their disposal were small and non-lethal. The boys employed their tablets to bash Cassian and their styluses (pointed iron instruments for writing) and penknives to make a multitude of cuts and punctures all over his body for an agonizingly extended time.’ (2)

Yet despite jews not killing Saint Cassian. Traditionally the pagans are seen as behaving like the jews by the Roman Catholic tradition:

‘These sharp pains now, which followed one another helter-skelter, leaving no room to breathe, was already a prayer force of blood. Cassian and receive a sense of the Holocaust. And the Redeemer humbly offer as compensation for the trail of shadows, including flashing lights , leave the man on earth. And remember Jesus died on Calvary. That mob of kids in a crazed dance looking for his body suggest that other imposing mass of Jews shouting insults thundered in the ears of the Cross. Those were the people of God. These were the family of the teacher.’ (3)

This therefore informs us that while the jews didn’t murder Saint Cassian. Their murder of Jesus Christ is seen by the Roman Catholic Church as being analogous.

References

(1) https://www.britannica.com/list/murder-most-horrid-the-grisliest-deaths-of-roman-catholic-saints

(2) Ibid.

(3) http://aesaintsoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/08/st-cassian-of-imola.html