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June
10Saints of the Day
June
10
Saints of the Day
She was described as a ravishing beauty of 13 years when
Saracens captured her at Palermo, Sicily in the
9th century.
She was deported to Tunis where she began to perform miracles
and
convert Muslims to Christianity. Wishing to get rid of her, but fearing her
power, her captors abandoned her in a forest, giving her to the beasts. Some
hunters found her and took her themselves as a slave, but she
converted them to the Faith.
Exasperated Muslim authorities
arrested,
tortured, and
beheaded her. At the moment of her death, her soul was seen to fly to heaven
in the form of a dove.
She has been honored in
Carthage and Palermo, and was held in great esteem by Christians and
Muslims. The great mosque of Tunis is called the Mosque of Olivia, and Tunisian
Muslims say that who speaks ill of her is always punished by God.
Saints of June 10:
http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0610.htm
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