05 works, Today, September 4th, is St. Charitina of Amisus's day, her story illustrated #247

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Rape As A Weapon Of War

CCTV America (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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St. Charitina of Amisus (also known as Charitina of Rome), was a virgin from Asia Minor, distinguished by strict chastity and piety.

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Saint Charitina of Amisus

Gold leaf, tempera and gesso on wood

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Orphaned young, she was the servant of an eminent Christian man called Claudius the pious, who brought her up as his own daughter. The young woman was very pretty, sensible, and kind. She imparted her love for Christ to others, and she converted many to the way of salvation. Charitina was meek, humble, obedient and silent. Although not as yet baptized, she was a Christian at heart. She studied the law of God day and night and vowed to live in perpetual virginity as a true bride of Christ.

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Emperor Diocletian (284-305 A.D.)

From Izmit (ancient Nicomedia)

Arkeoloji Muzerleri (Archaeological Museum), Turkey. Istanbul, 

Having brought others to the Christian faith, the Emperor Diocletian's governor, Dometius, heard of her and sent soldiers to take her from her foster-father for trial. The judge asked her: "Is it true, little girl, that you are a Christian, and that you delude others by bringing them to this dishonourable faith?" Charitina courageously replied: "It is true that I am a Christian, and a lie that I delude others. I lead those in error to the way of truth, bringing them to my Christ."

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St. Charitina of Amisus

Kharitina Amisiyskaya , Constantinople. 985

Miniature Minology of Vasily II.

Vatican Library. Rome.

The judge ordered that her hair be cut off and live coals put on her head, but the maiden was preserved by God's power. They threw her into the sea, but she clambered out saying, "This is my baptism." God delivered her from it. 

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She was bound to a wheel which began to turn

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She was bound to a wheel which began to turn, but an angel of God stopped the wheel and Charitina remained unharmed. Then the judge sent some dissolute youths to rape her. Fearing this dishonour, St Charitina prayed to God to receive her soul before these dissolute men could foul her virginal body and so, while she was kneeling in prayer, her soul went out from her body. St. Charitina died a martyr’s death. After torture, death, burial and desecration, her body was thrown into the sea in the year 304. More on St. Charitina of Amisus

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