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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 30th of July SAINT MAXIMA AND COMPANIONS, VIRGINS AND MARTYRS Today, we also commemorate Saint Maxima and Companions. The Roman Martyrology states:  "At Tuberbum Lucernarium, in Africa, the holy virgins and martyrs Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda. The first two, in the persecution of Valerian and Gallienus, were forced to drink vinegar and gall, then scourged most severely, and stretched on the rack, burned on the gridiron, rubbed over with lime, afterwards exposed to the beasts with the virgin Secunda, twelve years old, but being untouched by them, they were finally beheaded." PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda 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...