On this day the Church celebrates St. Casilda, the daughter of the emir of Toledo. Practiced the charityand brought food to the Christian prisoners. Later, he had a serious ailment. He was told of the healing power of the aguas de san Vicentenear Briviesca, in Burgos. There he bathed and was cured.
Saint Casilda became then to Christianity, asked to be baptized, received the Eucharist, decided to be a virgin and spend her life in prayer and penitence, around a hermitage that it built.
The Martyrology Romano notes "in the place called San Vicente, near Briviesca, in the region of Castile, in Spain, saint Casilda, virgin, who, born in the Mohammedan religion, mercifully helped Christians detained in prison and later, already a Christian, lived as a hermit († 1075)".
Before the emir: they are roses!
Living in Toledo, it is said that her father tried to surprise her when she went to a prison to take food to the prisoners. Christian prisoners. St. Casilda seemed to be carrying something hidden (it was food for the prisoners). The emir asked what it was, for it was forbidden. She answered: They are roses! The emir asked to see themand she dropped a handful of roses!
Among others santos On April 9, we find Blessed Thomas of Tolentino, martyred in India with three companions, and the Brazilian Blessed Lindalva Justo de Oliveira, of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. St. Demetrius of Thessalonica, Acacius, Edesius, Hugo of Rouen, archbishop and bishop of Paris and Bayeux, and Maximus, bishop of Alexandria. Saint Valdetrudis, married with four children, with saintly parents and siblings, and the Polish nun Celestina Faron, who died in Auschwitz in 1944.
