Saint Felicitas. Martyr. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 23 November.

Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Felicitas.
   Martyr.
   Feast Day 23 November.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Felicitas with her Seven Sons.

Illustration from The Nuremberg Chronicle,

by Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514).

This File: 2 January 2006.

Source: http://www.beloit.edu/~nurember/book/

images/People/Early_Christian_Medieval/index.htm

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"At Rome," says The Roman Martyrology, "Saint Felicitas, the mother of seven Martyred sons, who was beheaded after them for The Faith of Christ, by Order of The Emperor Marcus Antoninus." She died in 150 A.D.

Mass: Me exspectavérunt.