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Forced into a brothel by an evil magistrate, she refused customers in order to preserve her purity, though she endured beatings and torture.

At age eighteen, she heard him say: "When the The saint of the day for August 31 is St.

for not believing in your forgiveness.

Peter Nolasco, who devoted to ransoming Christians captured by the Moors.

List of Names of Female Patron Saints• When she heard Francis of Assisi preach his Lenten homilies at the Church of San Giorgio, she was captivated by his words.

The court sent Saint Vivian to live in a house of ill repute, but when Saint Vivian refused to earn her keep in sinful ways, the judge ordered Saint Vivian to be tied to a pillar and beaten with a lead whip until she died.

In 1728 when Margaret of Cortona 1247-1297 was canonized, she was held up as a model for penitent sinners.

Emilina went barefoot all year round and her prophetic gifts soon attracted the attention of others.

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