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ST EUGENIA OF ROME - 25 DECEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 25th of December

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SAINT EUGENIA OF ROME, VIRGIN AND MARTYR


From the 13th century "Golden Legend" by Bl. Jacopo de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275. Originally in Latin, it was the most widely read book (after the Bible) during the late Middle Ages:

Here beginneth the Life of St Eugenia.

Saint Eugenia, the noble virgin, which was daughter to Philip, duke of Alexandria, which for the emperor of Rome governed all the land of Egypt. 

Eugenia issued privily out of her father’s palace with two servants, and she went into an abbey in the habit and array of a man, in which abbey she led so holy a life that at the last she was made abbot of the same. It happed so that no man knew that she was a woman, yet there was a lady accused her of adultery tofore the judge which was her own father. Eugenia was put in prison for to be judged to death. 

SHE CONVERTED HER FATHER

At the last she said to her father much thing for to draw him to the faith of Jesus Christ. She rent her coat and showed to him that she was a woman and daughter of him that held her in prison, and so she converted her father unto the Christian faith. And he was after an holy bishop, and at the hour that he sang his Mass he was beheaded for the faith of Jesus Christ; and the lady that had falsely accused Eugenia was burnt with fire with all her party. 

HER MARTYRDOM

And after that, Claudia and her children came to Rome, and much people were by them converted, and many virgins by Eugenia, which Eugenia was much tormented in divers manners, and at the last by the sword accomplished her martyrdom, and thus made the offering of her proper body to our Lord Jesus Christ, qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. 

➡️ Saint Christina of Tyre, from the Golden Legend

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Eugenia may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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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