ST FAUSTA AND ST EVILASIUS, MARTYRS - 20th SEPTEMBER
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1. St Fausta and St Evilasius were 4th century martyrs. Their feast day is #Sep20.
St Fausta, a girl of thirteen, was brought up in the Faith. Having lost her parents
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2. at a young age, she led a virtuous and prayerful life. Following accusations that she was a Christian, she publicly answered in the affirmative. Thereupon she was dispatched to Evilasius, a pagan priest, for him to persuade her to change her mind and to sacrifice to the
3. pagan idols.
Coaxing and threats having been in vain, they locked her up in a wooden box, but no amount of trying to saw it did damage the box. St Fausta remained unharmed, guarded by divine power.
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4. The pagan priest Evilasius was shaken by the evident and manifest power of God. He believed in the Saviour and confessed himself a Christian.
Because he believed, he was also crowned for Christ.
5. Both of them were put to death in a cauldron containing boiling water. They suffered at Cyzicum in Pontus under Diocletian, in the year 305.
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