Saint Bibiana. Virgin And Martyr. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 2 December.

Frescoes by Pietro da Cortona.

Church of Santa Bibiana, Rome.

Photo: 24 October 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Sailko

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Fresco by Agostino Ciampelli.

Church of Santa Bibiana, Rome.

Photo: 24 October 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Sailko

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Bibiana.

Statue by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Church of Santa Bibiana, Rome.

Photo: 30 August 2013.

Source: WikiPaintings

Author: WikiPaintings

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Saint Bibiana.

Feast Day 2 December.

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Text is from “The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

Volume 1.

Advent.

Of the Saints whose Feast Days are kept during Advent, five are Virgins. The first, Saint Bibiana, whom we honour, today, is a daughter of Rome.

The second, Saint Barbara, is the glory of the Eastern Churches.

The third, Saint Eulalia of Merida, is one of Spain’s richest treasures.

The fourth, Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia), belongs to beautiful Sicily.

The fifth, Saint Odilia, is claimed by France.

These five wise Virgins lighted their lamps and watched, waiting for the coming of the Spouse. Such was their constancy and fidelity, that four of them shed blood for the love of Him, after Whom they longed.

Let us take courage by this noble example; and since we have not, as the Apostle expresses it, as yet resisted unto blood, let us not think it hard if we suffer fatigue and trouble in the holy exercises of this Penitential Season of Advent: He, for Whom we do them all, will soon be with us and repay us.

Today, it is the chaste and courageous Bibiana who instructs us by her glorious example.