ST SABINA OF MILAN, WIDOW

ST SABINA OF MILAN, WIDOW - 30 JANUARY

SAINT SABINA OF MILAN, WIDOW

Saint Sabina (Savina) was a noble matron descended of the Tresseni family of Lodi Vecchio (Laus Pompeja); the Bollandists refer to her as vidua laudensis.

HER CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY

At the time of Maximian's persecution she visited the holy martyrs in their prisons and gave them help and comfort. She buried the bodies of martyred Christians, among others those of Saints Felix and Nabor, which were brought from Lodi to Milan.

HER HOLY DEATH

She devoted herself entirely to prayer, fasting, and vigils, especially in the Coemeterium of St Caius. She was praying at the tombs of the holy martyrs when she died a happy and holy death in A.D. 311.

A RELIC

In 1571, St Charles Borromeo found her sacred body intact in the Church of St Nabor. From that day on he wore a tooth of the saint in a small reliquary around his neck. Her festival is celebrated in Milan on January 30. The Roman Martyrology also mentions her on that day and says that she was praying at the tomb of SS. Felix and Nabor when she fell asleep in the Lord.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints)

Comments

WELCOME

Please pick your saints: January - Saints by date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 February - Saints by date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 ...

ST LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR - 19 OCTOBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 19th of October WELCOME! SAINT LAURA OF CORDOBA, WIDOW AND MARTYR Laura, a widow and martyr of Cordoba in Spain, is mentioned in the Spanish martyrology of Tamajode Salazar, who refers to Luitprand, where it says the following: St Laura is said to have been of a noble family, and according to the wishes of her parents she married an equally noble man and gave birth to two daughters. After the death of her husband and her daughters, she went to the monastery of St Aurea, named St-Maria de Cuteclara, and after her martyrdom led the same for nine years as her successor. After she had made wonderful progress in all virtues, she was finally summoned to renounce the faith before a Saracen judge. But since she remained steadfast, she was first beaten very cruelly and then thrown into a bath of boiling pitch, where she remained in praise of God for three hours and then flew to heaven on October...

ST JOHN BERCHMANS, RELIGIOUS - 13 AUGUST

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 13th of August WELCOME! SAINT JOHN BERCHMANS, RELIGIOUS (Patron Saint of Altar Servers.) The eldest boy of a poor cordwainer, in a small Belgian town, John was ever a dutiful, prayerful, and studious child. Our Lord called him when but young to leave his father and his father’s house, to serve Him in the Society of Jesus. And because he was so good a son, it cost his father much to give him up to God; but he was too good a Christian to refuse outright. HE WAS SENT TO ROME John had hardly taken his religious vows when he was sent to the centre of Christendom, the holy city of Rome. His modesty, his purity, shone out as great virtue always does; and the young laymen who attended the lectures would come to gaze upon his beautiful and holy face, and go away the better for the sight. GREAT VIRTUE Three short years, and his last sickness found him sighing for heaven, and three days before the great feast of Mar...

SAINT FEAST DAY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR

Search This Blog