The Holy Martyr Agrippina
Saint Agrippina was born and educated
in Rome. From her childhood she trained herself to live an
evangelical life, driving away the stench of passions from her heart
and filling her heart with the sweet-smelling fragrance of purity, of
virginity and chastity. She was betrothed to Christ the Lord and, as
the Bride of Christ, suffered during the reign of Emperor Valerian.
She endured flogging with rods until her bones were crushed. An angel
of God appeared to her and strengthened her. While being tortured,
St. Agrippina gave up her soul to God. Her companions, Bassa, Paula
and Agathonice, translated her relics to the island of Sicily and
honorably buried them there. A church was later built there in St.
Agrippina's honor. Countless miracles were wrought from her relics.
By the power of her relics, even the Hagarians were turned away from
the town where her relics reposed. St. Agrippina rested in the year
275 A.D. and was crowned with glory.
Respectably Taken From the:
"The Prologue of Ohrid"
by St. Nikolai of Zica, Serbia(Velimirovic)
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