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The Many St. Christines Read more

The Many St. Christines

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...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 113
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