ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 2nd of December WELCOME! SAINT BIBIANA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR We are informed by Ammianus Marcellinus, a pagan historian of that age, and an officer in the court of Julian the Apostate, that this emperor made Apronianus governor of Rome in the year 363, who, while he was on the way to that city, had the misfortune to lose an eye. This accident he superstitiously imputed to the power of magic, through the malice of some who excelled in that art; and, in this foolish persuasion, to gratify his spleen and superstition, he resolved to punish and exterminate the magicians; in which accusation, Christians were involved above all others, on account of many wonderful miracles which were wrought in the primitive ages. ST BIBIANA RECEIVED THE CROWN OF MARTYRDOM Under this magistrate, Saint Bibiana received the crown of martyrdom. This holy virgin was a native of Rome, and daughter to Flavian, a Roman knight, and his ...