Patron Saint of the blind
283-304
Consecrated virgin, denounced by would-be pagan husband; her captors, unable to move or drag her, stabbed her and gouged her eyes out; she was martyred in Syracuse in Diocletion's persecutions of 304.
"Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's" - John Donne
283-304
Consecrated virgin, denounced by would-be pagan husband; her captors, unable to move or drag her, stabbed her and gouged her eyes out; she was martyred in Syracuse in Diocletion's persecutions of 304.
"Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's" - John Donne
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