Martyr
Holy Martyr Fausta
February 6 Old CalendarFebruary 19 New Calendar
Life
She suffered for Christ in the time of Emperor Maximian (between 305-311). By her heroism she amazed and converted to Christianity her torturers: the eighty-year-old priest Evilasius and Maximus the eparch. When the judge threatened Fausta with even more terrible torments, she told him to make an icon of her with a depiction of all those torments with which he threatened her. When the icon was finished and shown to her, Saint Fausta said: "Just as this icon feels no torments, so neither does my body feel torments from your punishments, for my soul is established in the Lord." The judge cast her into a cauldron of boiling water where this holy thirteen-year-old girl perished with prayer on her lips, and her soul went to Paradise.
When the icon was finished and shown to her, Saint Fausta said: "Just as this icon feels no torments, so neither does my body feel torments from your punishments, for my soul is established in the Lord." The judge cast her into a cauldron of boiling water where this holy thirteen-year-old girl perished with prayer on her lips, and her soul went to Paradise.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, February 6. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on February 6
The full reading for February 6 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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