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SAINTS EUPREXIA AND THEOGONIA - 5 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 5th of January WELCOME! SAINTS EUPREXIA AND THEOGONIA A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) Saint Euprexia, Widow, and Saint Theogonia, Virgin, who are commemorated on January 5, are mother and daughter, originally from Mineo (Menae) in Sicily. Around the year 280, during the reign of Valerian, they received from Rome the body of Saint Agrippina , whose memory the Roman Martyrology * celebrates on June 23. (I. 240) (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 118) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saints Euprexia and Theogonia 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 t