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Saint Reparata 3rd Century October 08 |
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Baptized very young. Arrested and tortured for her faith at age 11 during the persecution of Emperor Decius. Thrown into a furnace to die, she sat for a while in the flames, then emerged unharmed. Rather than see this as divine intervention, the authorities simply offered her another chance to apostatize; when she refused, she was beheaded.
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