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September 6 · Feast

Beata

Beata, Mm

Traditional feast

September 6
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on September 6 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. S. Beata by Usuardus on July 29. Authority: — The Acts, written in the 9th cent., and therefore not trustworthy.] SS. Sanctianus and Augustine, two brothers, with their sister Beata, Spaniards by birth, came to Soissons. They were all very young and had been baptized. Aurelian the prefect, having compassion on their youth, did all that lay in his power to persuade them to abandon the faith of Christ. But as they turned a deaf ear to his words, he ordered their execution with the sword

Feast days

Feast: September 6

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Beata's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.