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May 29, 2015 · The Confession of Theodosia, a Virgin of God. In the Fifth Year of the Persecution in our Days (306 A.D.) The persecution in our days had been prolonged to the fifth year. And it was the month Nisan, and the second day of the same month, when a godly virgin, and holy in all things, one of the virgins of the Son of God in the city of Tyre, who ...
Jan 20, 2017 · St. Maria Goretti’s attacker was sentenced to 30 years in prison. In the beginning, he slandered her constantly and attacked her character and purity in angry rage. Then Maria appeared to him in a dream, gathering lilies in a beautiful garden. Bathed in divine light, she turned to him and handed him the flowers.
Sep 23, 2016 · Longing to see God’s beauty Rhais gave, The beauty of her flesh to the sword. Rhais* was from a place in Egypt called Batan (or Tamman), and the daughter of a Christian priest named Peter. At the age of twelve she dedicated her life to the Lord in virginity along with other maidens. When Prefect Culcianus,* who was known for his numberless ...
The early church's theology of martyrdom was born not in synods or councils, but in sunlit, blood-drenched coliseums and catacombs, dark and still as death. The word martyr means "witness" and is ...
Nov 22, 2010 · St. Cecilia (Kikilia) the Virgin-Martyr (Feast Day - November 22) By St. Dimitri of Rostov. The holy virgin-martyr Cecilia was born in Rome to honorable and wealthy parents. Hearing the Holy Gospel preached, she believed in Christ and resolved to preserve her virginity for Him, but contrary to her will, her parents betrothed her to a noble ...
Oct 21, 2004 · October 16, 1890 — July 2, 1902. She was born October 16, 1890, in Corinaldo, a little town in Ancona, a province of Northern Italy on the Adriatic, the third of seven children of Assunta and Luigi Goretti. When Maria was six, her father, realizing he could not support his growing family on the barren countryside, took them south, toward Rome ...
Jan 5, 2016 · The acts of the martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas: the original Greek text now first edited from a ms. in the Library of the Convent of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem by Harris, J. Rendel (James Rendel), 1852-1941; Gifford, Seth K
