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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 25th of December 🌲 Christmas 🌲 WELCOME! 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...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 25th of December 🌲 Christmas 🌲 Prayer to the Angels and the Saints Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation. In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven. Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses. Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that bl...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER 🌲 Christmas 🌲 ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day December 25 Saint Anastasia Adrian I., Pope Saint Andrew of Syracuse, Religious Angelina, Virgin Blessed Boniface, Bishop of Lausanne Saint Eugenia of Rome Blessed Fulco, Archbishop of Toulouse Irimbert, Abbot Blessed Jacopone da Todi   Blessed Margarita of Savoy Peter the Venerable, Abbot Saint Romulus, Bishop Seraphinus of Altstätten, Priest Martyrs of Nicomedia -2512-

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 25th of December 🌲 Christmas 🌲 WELCOME! SAINT ANASTASIA, MARTYR St Anastasia's name is mentioned in the canon of the Mass, in the sacramentary of St Gregory, and in other ancient catalogues of martyrs. There stands in Rome an ancient church, which is dedicated to God in her memory.  MARTYRDOM In the acts of St Chrysogonus we are told, that she was of an illustrious descent at Rome, had St Chrysogonus for her tutor and director in the faith, and when that holy martyr was apprehended at Aquileia in the persecution of Diocletian, went thither to comfort him in his chains. It is further related, that after suffering exquisite tortures, she was sentenced by the prefect of Illyricum to be burnt alive in 304.  COMMEMORATION IN THE SECOND MASS Her body was removed to Rome, and laid in the church which still bears her name. In this church the popes anciently said their second Mass on Christmas night, or rather that of ...