WOMEN SAINTS AND MARTYRS APRIL 18-24
St. Agia
Feastday: April 18
714 A.D.
Benedictine and wife of St. Hiduiphus of Hainault, also called Aye or Austregildis. She entered the nunnery at Mons when St. Hidulphus became a monk.
St. Eleutherius & Anthia
Feastday: April 18
138 A.D.
Bishop in Illyria, Dalmatia, with his mother, Anthia. He was a Roman, educated by Bishop Dynamius. At the age of twenty, Eleutherius himself became a bishop and was arrested for converting an imperial official. He was clubbed to death and Anthia was beheaded.
St. Agnes of Montepulciano
Feastday April 20
1317 A.D.
Nun and foundress in Tuscany. She was born circa 1268 and at the age of nine entered the monastery of Montepulciano, near her home in Gracchiano-Vecchio. Four years later she was commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV to assist in the foundation of a new convent in Procena. At fifteen she became the head of the nuns there. About 1300, the people of Montepulciano built a new convent in order to lure Agnes back to them. She established a convent under the Dominican rule and governed there until her death in 1317. Agnes was noted for her visions. She held the infant Christ in her arms and received Holy Communion from an angel. She experienced levitations and she performed miracles for the faithful of the region. She is still revered in Tuscany.
St. Tarbula
Feastday: April 22
345 A.D.
Virgin and martyr, also listed as:, Tarba or Tarbo. The sister of St. Simeon, the Persiar" bishop and martyr, she was consecrated a virgin and met her own martyrdom soon after the death of he"' brother. Accused of practicing witchcraft and of causing sickness to befall the wife of the ardently anti-Christian Persian king Shapur, she was condemned and executed by being sawed in half.
St. Senorina
Feastday: April 22
982 A.D.
Benedictine abbess. A relative of St. Rudesind of Mondonedo, Italy. She was placed into the care of her aunt, the abbess Godina, at a convent in Venaria and later entered the community and served as its abbess.
St. Opportuna
Feastday: April 22
770 A.D.
Benedictine abbess. Born near Hyesmes, Normandy, she was the sister of St. Chrodegang, bishop of Seez, and entered a Benedictine convent at Monteuil, eventually becoming abbess. She died of shock after learning of her brother’s murder.
Feastday: April 18
714 A.D.
Benedictine and wife of St. Hiduiphus of Hainault, also called Aye or Austregildis. She entered the nunnery at Mons when St. Hidulphus became a monk.
St. Eleutherius & Anthia
Feastday: April 18
138 A.D.
Bishop in Illyria, Dalmatia, with his mother, Anthia. He was a Roman, educated by Bishop Dynamius. At the age of twenty, Eleutherius himself became a bishop and was arrested for converting an imperial official. He was clubbed to death and Anthia was beheaded.
St. Agnes of Montepulciano
Feastday April 20
1317 A.D.
Nun and foundress in Tuscany. She was born circa 1268 and at the age of nine entered the monastery of Montepulciano, near her home in Gracchiano-Vecchio. Four years later she was commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV to assist in the foundation of a new convent in Procena. At fifteen she became the head of the nuns there. About 1300, the people of Montepulciano built a new convent in order to lure Agnes back to them. She established a convent under the Dominican rule and governed there until her death in 1317. Agnes was noted for her visions. She held the infant Christ in her arms and received Holy Communion from an angel. She experienced levitations and she performed miracles for the faithful of the region. She is still revered in Tuscany.
St. Tarbula
Feastday: April 22
345 A.D.
Virgin and martyr, also listed as:, Tarba or Tarbo. The sister of St. Simeon, the Persiar" bishop and martyr, she was consecrated a virgin and met her own martyrdom soon after the death of he"' brother. Accused of practicing witchcraft and of causing sickness to befall the wife of the ardently anti-Christian Persian king Shapur, she was condemned and executed by being sawed in half.
St. Senorina
Feastday: April 22
982 A.D.
Benedictine abbess. A relative of St. Rudesind of Mondonedo, Italy. She was placed into the care of her aunt, the abbess Godina, at a convent in Venaria and later entered the community and served as its abbess.
St. Opportuna
Feastday: April 22
770 A.D.
Benedictine abbess. Born near Hyesmes, Normandy, she was the sister of St. Chrodegang, bishop of Seez, and entered a Benedictine convent at Monteuil, eventually becoming abbess. She died of shock after learning of her brother’s murder.
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