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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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June 23 · Virgin, Martyr

St. Agrippina

St. Agrippina

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

June 23
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Virgin
Martyr

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

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on June 23 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menology and Menaea and Roman Martyrology, Russian Kalendar. Greatly venerated in Sicily. Authority The account in the Menaea and Menology. The Acts are late and are amplifications of the original.] This blessed martyr was a virgin at Rome, who, for the faith of Christ, was stripped by the inhuman magistrate and scourged to death. Her body was carried to Sicily, and thence to Constantinople.

Feast days

Feast: June 23

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Agrippina's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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St. Felix

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St. John

St. John

June 23 · Priest, Martyr
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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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.