Saint Dorothy

Saint Dorothy

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  • Description / Title of the Saint : Virgin and Martyr

Saint Dorothy

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  • Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Dorothy: February 6
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Virgin and Martyr
  • Date of Death: Saint Dorothy died 303
 
 

The Story and History of Saint Dorothy
The story and history of Saint Dorothy. Dorothy was a young virgin, celebrated at Caesarea, where she lived, for her angelic virtue. Her parents seem to have been martyred before her in the Diocletian persecution, and when the Governor Sapricius came to Caesarea he called her before him, and sent this child of martyrs to the home where they were waiting for her.

She was stretched upon the rack, and offered marriage if she would consent to sacrifice, or death if she refused. But she replied that "Christ was her only Spouse, and death her desire." She was then placed in charge of two women who had fallen away from the faith, in the hope that they might pervert her; but the fire of her own heart rekindled the flame in theirs, and led them back to Christ. When she was set once more on the rack, Sapricius himself was amazed at the heavenly look she wore, and asked her the cause of her joy. "Because," she said, "I have brought back two souls to Christ, and because I shall soon be in heaven rejoicing with the angels." Her joy grew as she was buffeted in the face and her sides burned with plates of red-hot iron. "Blessed be Thou," she cried, when she was sentenced to be beheaded, - "blessed be Thou, O Thou Lover of souls! Who dost call me to Paradise, and invitest me to Thy nuptial chamber."

St. Dorothy suffered in the dead of winter, and it is said that on the road to her passion a lawyer called Theophilus, who had been used to calumniate and persecute the Christians, asked her, in mockery, to send him "apples or roses from the garden of her Spouse." The Saint promised to grant his request, and, just before she died, a little child stood by her side bearing three apples and three roses. She bade him take them to Theophilus and tell him this was the present which he sought from the garden of her Spouse. St. Dorothy had gone to heaven, and Theophilus was still making merry over his challenge to the Saint when the child entered his room. He saw that the child was an angel in disguise, and the fruit and flowers of no earthly growth. He was converted to the faith, and then shared in the martyrdom of St. Dorothy.

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Feast Day of Saint Dorothy
The Feast Day of Saint Dorothy is February 6. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.

 

Saint Dorothy

  • Short, concise biography of Saint Dorothy
  • History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
  • Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Dorothy
  • Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Dorothy - February 6
  • History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
  • Date of Death: 303
  • Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Dorothy
  • Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
  • Description / Title of the Saint : Virgin and Martyr
 
 

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Saint Dorothy