Born into a noble family in Italy in the fifth century. She converted to Christianity, much to her father’s displeasure. So he beheaded her. Himself.
Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Augusta
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
How much can one hate the true God than to behead one’s own daughter because of that hatred?
That was a small part of Imperial Rome’s equivalents of today’s woke racists and totalitarians methods to try enforce conformity.
It didn’t work in the fifth century AD. It won’t work now.