Saints celebrated on the 8th of May
AGLA OF ROME
Agla (Aglaë [Aglaida]) is the person with whom the holy Martyr Boniface of Tarsus lived with in sin. Saint Boniface, commemorated on May 14, was one of her slaves.
A REPENTANT SINNER
A very wealthy Roman lady, Agla repented and buried the body of this saint. She is listed as "saint" in Arthur's Gynaceum.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 🎨 Aglaida and Boniface, by Alexandre Cabanel)
HER LIFE
(About the Year 307.) There lived at Rome, about the beginning of the fourth century, a certain lady called Aglaë [Aglaida], young, beautiful, and well born, and so rich and fond of making a figure in the world, that she had entertained the city three several times with public shows at her own charge.
THREE GOOD QUALITIES
Her chief steward was one Boniface, with whom she entertained a criminal commerce [they lived in sin with each other]. This man, though addicted to wine and all kinds of debauchery, was however remarkable for three good qualities, hospitality, liberality, and compassion. Whensoever he saw a stranger or traveller, he would assist him very cordially; and he used to go about the streets and into the public places, in the night time, and relieved the poor according to their necessities.
AGLAË WAS TOUCHED WITH A MOTION OF DIVINE GRACE
After several years’ commerce in the vicious way already mentioned, Aglaë, touched with a motion of divine grace, and feeling some compunction within herself, called Boniface to her, and thus opened her mind to him: “You are sensible how deep we are plunged in vice, without reflecting that we must appear before God to give an account of all our actions. I have heard some say, ➡️ continue reading
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