Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
March 25
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Virgin
Martyr
Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 60 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Nothing is known of this saint, except that she was a servant or slave-girl—as indeed her name implies—to a soldier at Nicomedia, and that she steadfastly resisted his importunities, till, exasperated at her opposition to his passion, he killed her, in an explosion of anger. Her real name is unknown; the name Dula is simply the Greek word for servant-maid.
Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.
Keep their day. Remember them on March 25 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Nothing is known of this saint, except that she was a servant or slave-girl—as indeed her name implies—to a soldier at Nicomedia, and that she steadfastly resisted his importunities, till, exasperated at her opposition to his passion, he killed her, in an explosion of anger. Her real name is unknown; the name Dula is simply the Greek word for servant-maid.
Feast: March 25
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Dula's story, and a nudge to keep going.
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.
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.