TODAY'S SAINT (Carina and Her Companions)

CARINA AND HER COMPANIONS

Martyrs

Nothing is known about this saint (also called Cassina) apart from the Acts of her martyrdom. In the year 360, at the time of Emperor Julian the Apostate in the city of Ankara, she and her husband Antonius as well as her thirteen-year-old son Melasippus were arrested on account of their Christian Faith.

The local autorities, as was the custom in such matters, endeavored to sway them from their devotion to the true God by means of cruel and inhuman tortures. But, aided by grace from on high, the three Christians remmained unswerving in their allegiance and steadfast in their Faith. they thus attained the crown of martyrdom and went on to receive their heavenly reward from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ whom they had so closely followed on earth.

PRAYER

God, You surround and protect us by the glorious confession of

St. Carina and her Companions. Help us to profit from their exa-

mple and be supported by their prayers. Amen.

Feast: November 7