ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 5th of December WELCOME! ST CRISPINA OF TAGORA, MARTYR St Augustine informs us, that Saint Crispina, this glorious martyr, was a lady of high birth, very rich, and engaged in the marriage state; that she had several children; and that though of a delicate and tender constitution, she was endued with a masculine courage, preferred heaven to earth, and God to the world, and rejoiced to see herself taken and called to confess Jesus Christ on a scaffold, and in the sight of the whole world. SHE WAS APPREHENDED FOR BEING A CHRISTIAN She was a native of Thagara [Tagora], in the Proconsular Africa, and was apprehended for professing the faith of Christ, and conducted to Thebeste, before Anulinus the proconsul of Africa. This magistrate exhorted her to sacrifice to the gods, as the edicts of the emperors commanded. The martyr answered: "I have never sacrificed, nor do sacrifice to any other than to one God, and to our...