November 9th St. Maria of Constantinople
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November 9th St. Maria of Constantinople
St. Maria of Constantinople was one of a group of 10 Catholic Christians who were arrested while trying to defend the image of Jesus over the Brazen Gate of Constantinople from an attack by the Iconoclasts during the persecutions of Emperor Leo the Isaurian. They were judged for opposing the emperor and martyred. She was born in Turkey and died in 730 AD.
Devotion to the souls in Purgatory contains in itself all the works of mercy, which supernaturalized by a spirit of faith, should merit us Heaven. de Sales