Sts. Vincent, Sabina and Chrysteta

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October 24 · Martyrs

Sts. Vincent

Sts. Vincent, Sabina and Chrysteta

Traditional feast

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

Current feast

January 22
Verified · General Roman Calendar

Represents

Martyrs

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 October 24 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Mozarabic Martyrologies. Authority: — The fabulous Acts in the Mozarabic Breviary.] INCENT was arrested and brought before Dacian, governor of Spain, and ordered to adore an image of Jupiter. He put his foot on a stone and it sank in, leaving the impression as though he had trod on soft wax. Astonished at this miracle, his keepers let him go, and he ran away with his sisters Sabina and Chrysteta to Avila, where, however, all three were taken and executed. Then a great serpent, which was accustomed to swallow men whole, wound itself round the bodies of the martyrs and preserved them from insult A Jew coming up to inspect them, was caught up by the serpent, and held dangling high in the air for the space of an hour, till he vowed to give Christian burial to the bodies of the martyrs. Ruinart gives this grotesque story among the “Acta Sincera ” of martyrs.

Feast days

Feast: January 22
Traditional: October 24

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

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Vicente de Zaragoza by Tomás Giner, 1462–1466.jpg · Tomás Giner · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: Tomás Giner, Wikimedia Commons (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.