St. Apronia

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

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July 15 · Virgin

St. Apronia

St. Apronia

A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Traditional feast

July 15
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

July 15
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Virgin

Early life

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

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What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole life given to God with an undivided heart.

Keep their day. Remember them on July 15 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Venerated at Toul and Troyes. Authority A late Life, by an anonymous writer, several centuries subsequent to the date of S. Apronia.] S. Apronia, called vulgarly Evronie, was sister of S. Aner, bishop of Toul, and was born at Tranquille, a village in the diocese of Troyes. Drawn by her love of Christ to a religious life, she led on earth a virginal and angelic life, in imitation of her brother, a man of the highest sanctity. During her life she loved innocence, purity, and holiness, which she preserved till her death. She was enshrined at Toul by the bishop, S. Gerard, in 992.

Feast days

Feast: July 15

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Saintes 02162.JPG · G.Garitan · CC BY-SA 3.0, 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: G.Garitan, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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.