ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER Saints celebrated on the 8th of October WELCOME! SAINT REPARATA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR Saint Reparata Rabanus , who completed his martyrology in the first half of the 9th century, writes of this Saint: “On the 8th of October, the virgin Reparata of Caesarea, a city in Palestine, was martyred under the governor Decius. Since the virgin did not want to sacrifice to idols, she was [tortured] and, because this did not induce her to apostatise, she was savagely burned and, to the horror of the Christians, led around the city completely naked and finally beheaded, with a white dove flying out of her neck . The Christians gathered up her body secretly, anointed it and buried it." The most fabulous journey of her dead body across the Mediterranean Sea to Campania on an old barque without sailors and sails the Bollandists * relegate into the realm of fables. How it got to Teano ( Teanum ), a town in Apulia (of which now only some...