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Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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September 20 · Virgin, Martyr

St. Susanna

St. Susanna

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

September 20
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 20 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Mensea and Menologies. Authority: — The Greek Acts, which are late and untrustworthy.] S. Susanna, daughter of an idol-priest at Eleutheropolis, in Palestine, on his death, was instructed in the faith and baptized by a Christian priest named Sylvanus; then, dressing herself as a boy, she entered a monastery of men, and passed there as a monk, but was discovered and turned out.1 She was then made superior of a convent of women. In the reign of Julian, in a popular tumult, she was taken 1 The same story is told of her as of S. Apolhnaris Syncletica, and of S. Marin*. S. Agapdus.

Feast days

Feast: September 20

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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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.