St Polyxene The Disciple Of The Apostles Who Died In Spain

COMMEMORATED ON SEPTEMBER 23The Monastic Women Xanthippe and Polyxene were sisters by start and they lived in Spain in the time of the holy Apostles. They were as well as the first of all to obstacle the divine teaching of Christ the Redeemer from the holy Apostle Paul, seeing that he preached in their land.St Xanthippe and her companion Probus predictable Christianity, but St Polyxene was steady a pagan seeing that a absolute man became gone astray with her prominent beauty and under protest carried her off to Greece on a ship. The Member of the aristocracy sealed her safe and sound. On the move, the saint heard the preaching of the holy Apostle Peter and alleged in Christ.Like she appearing in in Greece, St Polyxene turned to the Christians for protection and block and they hid her in the inner-city of Patra in Achaia, everyplace she inhospitably predictable Christianity and was baptized by the holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called himself.She became a trace to his miracles, and how he patiently and remorsefully endured his sufferings and death. She stood at the cross upon which they crucified the holy Apostle Andrew. In the past his martyric death, St Polyxene returned to Spain, everyplace she and her foggy sister Xanthippe converted numerous pagans to Christ. St Polyxene toiled for about forty energy preaching the Gospel in Spain. St Xanthippe obliging in her sister's work and preached in the populous inner-city of Toledo.St Polyxene reposed in about the day 109, having sealed her virginity to the end of her chronological life.SOURCE:"SAINT OR Holiday POSTED THIS Assembly point 2007:"