St. Christina

For Christina​:

St. Christina was the daughter of a rich and powerful magistrate. Her father, who was a heathen, had several golden idols.  Christina destroyed the idols and gave the pieces to the poor. This infuriated her father who then began to persecute his daughter. He had her whipped with rods and thrown into prison. When her faith was still not shaken, he then had her flesh torn by iron hooks and fastened her to a rack beneath which a fire was kindled.  But God watched over her and turned the flames back onto the onlookers. She was then thrown into a lake with a heavy rock tied around her neck, but she was saved by an angel and even outlived her father. The judge who succeeded her father continued to torture Christina - she was thrown into a burning furnace, thrown into a pit of serpents, had her tongue cut out and was pierced by arrows, earning her martyr's crown.  Her feast day is July 24.