A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
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November 24
November 24
Virgins
Martyrs
Flora's father was a Mahometan, but her mother secretly taught her the faith. Her own brother denounced her to the cadi of Cordova, who had her scourged and beaten on the head.
She escaped, then met Mary, sister of the martyred deacon Valabonsus, in the church of St. Acisclus. Together they presented themselves to the cadi. St. Eulogius, himself in prison, sent them his Exhortation to Martyrdom. Both were beheaded on 24 November. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on 851.
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Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on November 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: November 24
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Flora and Mary's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
