Saints of the 30 of december
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Saint Judith
Judith’s story is told in the Deuterocanonical book of Judith. She was a widow in the time of King Nebuchadnezzar. While under siege from the Assyrians, and on the brink of starvation, the Jews of Bethulia considered surrendering. Judith, a widow, refused to surrender and sought out the General of the Assyrians, entrancing him with her beauty. While distracting him, she cut off his head, thus leaving the Assyrians with no leader. This allowed the Jews to fight back and drive away the Assyrian army.
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Translation of James Apostle
The latest historical news from [James] come from Palestine, where (the first of the Apostles of Jesus) martyred and beheaded in Jerusalem. From here arises a deep tradition that his body is moved to the end of the world, to Western Europe, Galicia (Spain). It arrived by boat to Iria Flavio (Padrón) and there it would be conveyed inland to end up buried in lands of the current Saintiago de Compostela. The story rises to the tradition with the passage of generations and the Muslim invasion, to rediscover the Tomb in the 9th century, starting a second story of the Apostle James that would mark Spain and across Europe
- Saint Anisia mártir
- Saint Anysia of Thessalonica
- Saint Egwin of Worcester
- Saint Exuperancio diácono
- Saint Félix I papa
- Saint Geremaro of Flay
- Saint Hermetes of Bononia
- Saint Jocundo obispo
- Saint Lorenzo of Fraxanone
- Saint Perpetuo obispo
- Saint Rainerio of Vestinos
- Saint Rogerio obispo
- Saint Venustiano mártir
- Blessed Eugenia Rivasco
- Blessed Giovanni Maria Boccardo
- Blessed Margaret Colonna
- Blessed Ralph abbot