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March 11
March 11
Virgin
Martyr
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 55 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Alberta, the sister of S. Faith in blood and religion, and one of the first martyrs of the Agenois, earned the double crown of virginity and martyrdom. Her relics, long preserved at Périgueux with those of S. Phebadas, were translated to the church of Benerque, on the Ariége, where they are preserved to this day.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on March 11 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Alberta, the sister of S. Faith in blood and religion, and one of the first martyrs of the Agenois, earned the double crown of virginity and martyrdom. Her relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor], long preserved at Périgueux with those of S. Phebadas, were translated to the church of Benerque, on the Ariége, where they are preserved to this day.
Feast: March 11
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Alberta's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: SainteAlberteAgen.png · Jean Cayla auteur du livre · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. Public domain.
Image: Jean Cayla auteur du livre, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897), digitized text from Project Gutenberg. 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.
