7 Simple Ways to Honor Mother Mary During the Month of May -
7 Simple Ways to Honor Mother Mary During the Month of May -: The month of May is a special time for Catholics around the world, as it is dedicated to the veneration of Mother Mary.
WOMEN SAINTS AND MARTYRS SEPT. 05 - SEPT. 11
September 5 St. Obdulia, Virgin , She was venerated at Toledo, Spain. Her remains are enshrined in Toledo, but details of her life are not extant. September 7 St. Regina. Martyr . She was an actual martyr at Autun, France. The daughter of a pagan, Clement, and tortured and beheaded during the second century when she refused to marry the proconsul Olybrius. Feast day is Sept 7th. St. Grimonia . Grimonia was the daughter of a pagan Irish chief, and that when she was twelve years old; she was converted to Christianity and made a vow of perpetual virginity. Her father, in defiance of or not understanding such a vow, wished her to marry, and when she refused, shut her up. Grimonia escaped and fled to France, where she became a solitary in the forest of Thierache in Picardy. Here the contemplation of the beauty of created things would often bring her to the state of ecstasy. After a prolonged search, the messengers of her father traced her to her retreat, where they before her the alternat
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