A HAPPY FEAST OF ST CHRISTIANA TO YOU, THE SLAVE GIRL WHO LED ROYALS TO REVERE THE HOLY NAME
Saint Christiana was a salve girl in Kurdistan during the 300s. She was a young Christian and her owners were contemptuous of her faith. Christiana and her fellow Christians were in a tiny, oppressed minority among a majority of Pagans.
In these ancient times, it was the practice among the people that when a child fell seriously ill, the mother took her child and went door to door asking the neighbors for their homespun cures. One day, out of the blue, a desperate mother came to the home of Christiana and asked her if she knew of anything that would heal her child who was dying by inches in her arms. Christiana beheld the babe and said, "Jesus, Jesus." At the sound of Our Savior's Name, a smile played on the lips of the little one, and he was healed miraculously.
News of this astounding miracle spread throughout the land and even the Queen heard tell of it. The Queen issued Christiana with a summons to come to her court. When Christiana was in the company of the Queen…
In these ancient times, it was the practice among the people that when a child fell seriously ill, the mother took her child and went door to door asking the neighbors for their homespun cures. One day, out of the blue, a desperate mother came to the home of Christiana and asked her if she knew of anything that would heal her child who was dying by inches in her arms. Christiana beheld the babe and said, "Jesus, Jesus." At the sound of Our Savior's Name, a smile played on the lips of the little one, and he was healed miraculously.
News of this astounding miracle spread throughout the land and even the Queen heard tell of it. The Queen issued Christiana with a summons to come to her court. When Christiana was in the company of the Queen…
