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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 5 · Virgin, Martyr

St. Rhais

St. Rhais

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

September 5
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 September 5 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menology. Authority Mention in the Menology.] Rhais was a girl of twelve, the daughter of a Christian priest named Peter. She was born at Tabne. And when she saw gangs of martyrs, men and women, being led to death under the Governor Culcianus, she ran to the officers, and said, “ I too, am a Christian/' She was led before Culcianus at Alexandria, and as she persisted in her confession was executed with the sword along with the rest of the women.

Feast days

Feast: September 5

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. Rhais's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

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Sources

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.