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July 24th is the feast day of St. Christina. She was a martyr in the early Church. Her death in 300 A.D. is another example of those who selflessly gave their lives to defend the Faith and spread the message of the Gospel. Thirteen years after her death, Constantine the Great legalized Christianity and was Baptized before he died.

Saint Christina was born around the year 290 A.D. The Roman Empire was in increasing disarray with many insurrections and wars. Christianity was not only illegal and forbidden, but Christians were routinely rounded up and physically persecuted and executed.

St. Christina was born in Tyro in the Tuscany region of Italy. The town was built on an island in the lake near Bolsena which has since sunk. Her father, Urban Anicii, was the Roman Prefect for the island. In today’s terms, his position was a combination of governor and judge. Her father was solidly in league with the Roman Empire. The people of the Roman Empire worshipped many gods, much like Greek mythology. Urban was deeply attached to his Roman assortment of deities. It was a way of life

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Saint Christina (Feast Day, July 24th)

The legend of Saint Christina dates to the later Fourth Century at Bofena, Italy where recent archeological evidence has shown that the patron of St. Christine's Church was indeed venerated.

She was the daughter of Urbain, a rich and powerful magistrate who was a palace official and descendant of a famous Bofena family. But he was a heathen, she a Christina, At age 11 the beautiful Christina found herself much desired as a bride by young nobles, whom she rejected. Angered , her father locked her and 12 servants in a tower, placing in her cell the expensive idols of his heathen worship. Christina smashed them after an angelic vision, and had the priceless pieces distributed among the poor.

This act seemed to have turned Urbain into the persecutor of his daughter. He had her whipped and thrown into prison. But Christina remained unshaken in her Faith, even after having her body torn and placed upon a grate over a fire (which miraculously was turned against her persecutors). After this, the unyielding, but pitiful girl was consoled by

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Christina of Bolsena

Christian virgin and martyr

Christina of Tyre, also known as Christine of Bolsena, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great martyr,^[2] is venerated as a virgin martyr of the third century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed over her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Tyre by the fourth century.

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The existence of Christina is poorly attested. Some versions of her legend place her in Tyre (Phoenicia), while other evidence points to Bolsena, an ancient town in central Italy near an Etruscan settlement called Volsinium. There were found some catacombs in which were the remains of an early Christian church and the tomb of a female martyr. Inscriptions at the site confirmed the martyr had a name like "Christina", and that the local community was already venerating her as a saint by the end of the fourth century. Some corroborating evidence is also provided by a sixth-century mosaic in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, which includes a procession of virgins, one