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July 24 · Martyrs

Sts. Niceta and Aquilina

Sts. Niceta and Aquilina

Traditional feast

July 24
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

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

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Keep their day. Remember them on July 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks and Russians on May 9th. By the Roman and most Latin Martyrologies on July 24th. Usuardus, Ado, Notker; not in the early Roman Martyrologies. Authority The purely fabulous account in the A cts of S. Chr stopher, which are an allegory and not a statement of facts.] CETA and Aquilina, or more properly Callinice* as she is called in the Greek Mensea, were two sisters, harlots, sent to induce S. Christopher to renounce Christ and the virtues of his Christian calling, when he was in prison. He, however, converted them, and they were executed by order of the king, Dagon. The story is utterly fabulous. The particulars are so repugnant to reason that after quoting them, the Bollandist father, Pinins, exclaims, “Who can read with patience, much less S. Christina.

Feast days

Feast: July 24

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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Sources & notes

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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.