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St. Regina of Autun

Feast 09-07

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Saint Regina was a virgin martyr of Gaul, born at Autun in Burgundy to a pagan father named Clement. Her mother died at her birth, and the child was given to a Christian nurse, who baptized her in secret and raised her in the faith. As a girl Regina tended the sheep on the hillsides, spending her days in prayer and meditation on the lives of the saints.

When she was about fifteen, the proconsul Olybrius saw her and sought to marry her, but she refused to renounce her faith or her virginity. Enraged, he had her tortured and finally beheaded at Alesia, in the diocese of Autun. The village that grew around her shrine took the name Alise-Sainte-Reine.

Invoked against poverty and as a patron of shepherdesses, Regina kept her faith and her purity at the cost of her life.

the poor, poor, the poor people, poverty, poor people, the impoverished, the needy, the destitute, the less fortunate, the underprivileged, the poor and needy, shepherds, shepherd, sheep, shepherding, flock, tending sheep, sheep herding, pastoral, sheep farming, sheep keepers, flock keeping, single women, single woman, unmarried women, single ladies, unmarried ladies, women living alone, single catholic women, single life women, spinsters, single girls

Suggested prayer

O God, who gave the virgin Regina grace to tend her sheep in prayer and to lay down her life rather than deny you, grant through her intercession that the poor may be lifted up, that those who suffer may be strengthened, and that single women may find their refuge in you. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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For the poor

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