SAINT FEAST DAY 5 DECEMBER: ST CRISPINA, MARTYR

ST CRISPINA OF TAGORA, MARTYR

St Augustine informs us, that Saint Crispina, this glorious martyr, was a lady of high birth, very rich, and engaged in the marriage state; that she had several children; and that though of a delicate and tender constitution, she was endued with a masculine courage, preferred heaven to earth, and God to the world, and rejoiced to see herself taken and called to confess Jesus Christ on a scaffold, and in the sight of the whole world.

SHE WAS APPREHENDED FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN

She was a native of Thagara [Tagora], in the Proconsular Africa, and was apprehended for professing the faith of Christ, and conducted to Thebeste, before Anulinus the proconsul of Africa.

This magistrate exhorted her to sacrifice to the gods, as the edicts of the emperors commanded. The martyr answered:

"I have never sacrificed, nor do sacrifice to any other than to one God, and to our Lord Jesus Christ, his Son, who was born and suffered for us."

"NOR DO I SACRIFICE TO ANY OTHER THAN TO ONE GOD"

Anulinus threatened her with the rigour of the law.

She said that she adored and knew only one God, and observed the law of Jesus Christ, her Lord.

The proconsul pressed her to give some token of piety towards the gods.

"There can be no devotion and piety," said the martyr, "where everything is compulsion."

SHE WAS THREATENED

When he again thundered out his threats, she replied: "That his torments were nothing; but that if she despised the God of heaven, she should incur the guilt of sacrilege, and be punished by him at the last day."

Anulinus in great anger said she should be treated as her companions Maxima, Donatilla and Secunda had been before.

"MY GOD IS WITH ME"

She made answer: "My God is with me to preserve me from ever consenting to the sacrilege which is required of me."

The proconsul then ordered the whole process of what had passed at the trial to be read aloud; after which he dictated the sentence of death against her.

Crispina, flushed with joy, gave thanks to God and was led to execution. She was beheaded on December 5, 304, and is named in the Roman Martyrology.

Source: Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who know how courageously your holy martyr Crispina confessed the faith, may experience her goodness as she intercedes for us with you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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