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September 3 · —

St. Phcebe

St. Phcebe, Deaconess

Traditional feast

September 3
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Feast

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 September 3 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Ado and Usuardus. Authority Rom. xvi. i, 2.] CEBE is the first, and one of the most important, of the Christian persons, probably converts of S. Paul, of whom detailed mention is made in the last chapter of the Epistle to the Romans. She was a deaconess of the Church of Cenchrea, and when she went to Rome on private business, was commended to the Roman Christians by the great apostle of the Gentiles, as having “been a succourer of many, and of myself also.” S. Paul calls her “ a sister/’ and some have thought that she was his wife, but this is most improbable. From other passages in his Epistles it is clear that S. Paul was not married.1 On the other hand, S. Ignatius (d. 10S), in his Epistle to the Philadelphians, speaks of both S. Peter and S. Paul as having been married.

Feast days

Feast: September 3

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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St. Basilissa

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St. Mansuetus

St. Mansuetus

September 3 · Bishop
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St. Macniss of Connor

September 3 · Bishop
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Sources & notes

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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.