There is an oddity in today’s martyrology (listing of the saints) in that we find two different St. Christines and a St. Christiana.
St. Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224) was born to a peasant family in Belgium. She was orphaned as a child and raised by her two older sisters. When she was 21 she had what was believed to be a severe seizure, and was pronounced dead. At her funeral...