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A deplorable oversight and one for which I at least must beg the list's pardon. A sister of Naples' St. Aspren (3. August), she was his first convert after he had been baptized by St. Peter. At an undetermined time her relics were translated to what is now Wuppertal in today's Nordrhein-Westfalen, whence her cult radiated to Leverkusen and to other cities of the Rheinland, with an important cult center later established in Frankfurt am Main. A.'s relics were dispersed during the years immediately following the cessation of hostilities in World War II. Her subsequent worldwide veneration is beyond the remit of this august list.
Best,
John Dillon
On Friday, December 3, 2010, at 8:53 am, christopher crockett wrote:
> the much later (19th
> c.)
> Ste. Aspirina, and who, strangely enough, has never made an appearance
> among
> the list's daily hagiographic dose in all the years that i have been
> on it.
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