ST. SABINUS OF HERMOPOLIS, MARTYR IN EGYPT, ST. CHRISTINA OF PERSIA, MARTYR, ST. LEANDER, BISHOP OF SEVILLE, Mar. 13

ST. SABINUS OF HERMOPOLIS, MARTYR IN EGYPT

With other Christians, he retreated into the wilderness to escape the persecutions of Diocletian, but was betrayed to the authorities by a beggar he had helped. Martyr. Died. drowned in the River Nile in Egypt c.307;  Mar. 13

ST. CHRISTINA OF PERSIA, MARTYR

 she lived during the third century and was the daughter of a rich and powerful magistrate believed to have been named Urbain. He was deep in the practices of heathenism and had a number of golden idols, which he distributed among the poor. Mar. 13

ST. LEANDER, BISHOP OF SEVILLE

1. Leander was born at Cartagena, Spain, of Severianus and Theodora, illustrious for their virtue. St. Isidore and Fulgentius, both bishops were his brothers, and his sister, Florentina, is also numbered among the saints. He became a monk at Seville and then the bishop of the See. Mar. 13
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