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ST GEORGIA, VIRGIN - 15 FEBRUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY   Saints celebrated on the 15th of February WELCOME! SAINT GEORGIA, VIRGIN Monastery yard in the snow Saint Georgia (commemorated on February 15 ; also  March 11 and September 25 ) was a pious virgin whose memory - as stated in the  Roman Martyrology * - is celebrated in Auvergne ( apud Arvernos ). According to  Saint Gregory of Tours , she lived in seclusion and "consecrated every day to the Lord in fasting and prayer." It so happened that, after her passing, when her body was about to be carried to the church of the nearest town, many doves flew along and accompanied the corpse; during the funeral, however, they remained on the church roof and then flew up to heaven. Later writers transformed the doves into angels, thereby completing the "heavenly funeral rite." The time in which she lived is unknown; since even  Saint Gregory of Tours  could only recount legends about her (he explicitly uses the word " fertur " ...