ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL Saints celebrated on the 9th of April WELCOME! SAINT CASILDA OF TOLEDO, HERMITESS A daughter of Yahya ibn Ismail Al-Mamun, Saint Casilda was raised a Muslim. She showed great compassion for Christian prisoners by frequently smuggling bread into the prison, hidden in a basket concealed in her clothes, to feed them. Once, she was stopped by her father and his Muslim soldiers, and asked to reveal what she was carrying in her skirt. When she began to show them, the bread turned into a bouquet of roses. SHE BECAME A CHRISTIAN AND BEGAN A PENITENTIAL LIFE OF SOLITUDE When she became ill as a young woman, she refused help from Arab doctors and travelled to northern Spain to partake of the healing waters of the shrine of San Vicente, near Buezo, close to Briviesca. When she was cured, she was baptised at Burgos (where she was later venerated) and lived a life of solitude and penance not far from the miraculous spring. It is said that she lived to be 1...