The holy Martyr Crispina
Saint Crispina was a lady of noble birth from Thagura in Numidia in north Africa. In the persecution of Diocletian and Maximian, she was brought before the proconsul Anullinus in Thebeste on December 5. As is the case with many of the early Martyrs, the account we have of her is the official transcript of her trial, in which she was questioned by Anullinus and required to sacrifice to the gods of the Romans. Valiantly scorning all his threats, reviling the demons he worshipped, and confessing our Lord Jesus Christ, she was first shorn of all her hair and shaved bald in humiliation, then beheaded, in the year 304. She had as companions the Virgin Martyrs Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda, whose feast is kept on July 30. There was once a great basilica at Thebeste, probably containing her relics; Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, refers to her often in his sermons as a renowned and much-venerated Saint.
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