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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 19th of July SAINTS JUSTA AND RUFINA, VIRGINS AND MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saints Justa and Rufina . The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Seville, in Spain, the martyrdom of the holy virgins Justa and Rufina. Arrested by the governor Diogenian, they were stretched on the rack and lacerated with iron claws, then imprisoned, and subjected to starvation and various tortures. Lastly Justa breathed her last in prison, and Rufina had her neck broken while confessing Christ." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Justa and Rufina may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

    ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 10th of July WELCOME! SAINTS RUFINA AND SECUNDA, VIRGINS AND MARTYRS Saint Rufina and Saint Secunda were sisters, and the daughters of one Asterius, a man of a senatorian family in Rome. Their father promised them in marriage, the first to Armentarius, and the second to Verinus, who were then both Christians, but afterwards apostatised from the faith when the storm raised by Valerian and Gallien in 257, fell upon the church.  THEY FLED The two virgins resisted their solicitations to imitate their impiety, and fled out of Rome; but were overtaken, brought back, and after other torments condemned by Junius Donatus, prefect of Rome, to lose their heads.  THE WHITE FOREST They were conducted twelve miles out of Rome, executed in a forest on the Aurelian Way, and buried in the same place. It was then called the Black Forest, Sylva Nigra, but from these martyrs this name was changed into that of Sylva Candida or th...