Statue der heiligen Regina aus der Pfarrkirche St. Regina Drensteinfurt / Statue of the Holy Saint Regina from the church with the same name.
Sainte Reine
Martyre à Alésia, en Côte d'Or (+ 252)
Ses 'Actes' sont sans valeur car ils sont l'œuvre d'un
faussaire qui se contenta de plagier les 'Actes' de sainte Marguerite.
Son culte est attesté à Alésia (Alise
Sainte Reine -21150- dans la Côte d'Or) dès le Ve siècle, par une
basilique érigée au-dessus de son sarcophage ce qui donne à croire que sainte
Reine subit le martyre là même où Vercingétorix se rendit à César.
A Voisines -89260- on trouve une chapelle
Sainte-Reine: "bâtie en 1827 par deux habitants à la suite d’un vœu fait
lors d’un pèlerinage à Alise-Sainte-Reine. Ce fut longtemps un pèlerinage
fréquenté. L’hiver, une messe y est dite les premiers vendredis du mois car la
chapelle est plus facile à chauffer que l’église." (Les chapelles
du Sénonais et du Jovinien - diocèse de Sens-Auxerre)
D'après la légende qui évolue avec le temps, Reine
était une jeune fille, orpheline de mère, instruite dans la foi chrétienne par
sa nourrice.
À Alésia chez les Éduens, sainte Reine, martyre.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1807/Sainte-Reine.html
Sainte Reine d’Autun
Vierge et martyre
Fête le 7 septembre
Église de France
† en Bourgogne v. 286 (?)
Autre graphie :
Reine ou Régine
Les Actes de cette
martyre n’ont aucune valeur historique, on suppose que cette humble bergère se
refusant à un païen, fut torturée et décapitée à Autun par le préfet Olybrius
parce qu’elle avait refusé de l’épouser. Sa légende est une simple reprise de
la vie de sainte Marina.
A Alise en Côte-d’Or (sur
le plateau du mont Auxois, site d’Alésia), le culte de sainte Reine est
antérieur à 626.
En 1923, on a déblayé à
Alésia (Alise-Sainte-Reine) une église mérovingienne, probablement dédiée à
notre martyre, peut-être exécutée sur cet emplacement en 252. Ses reliques sont
à Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (Côte-d’Or).
Sainte Reine est la
patronne des charpentiers.
SOURCE : http://www.martyretsaint.com/reine-dautun/
Also known as
Regnia
Reine
Profile
Daughter of a pagan aristocrat
named Clement. A convert to Christianity,
she was driven from her family’s home because of her faith, and
lived as a poor, prayerful shepherdess. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred when
she refused an arranged marriage to
the Roman proconsul Olybrius.
throat cut c.286 at Autun,
(in modern France)
venerated at Autun, France from
soon after her death
Additional Information
Book of
Saints, by the Monks of
Ramsgate
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Alban
Butler
Lives
of the Saints, by Father Francis
Xavier Weninger
Saints
of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
books
Lives of the Saints, by Omer Englebert
Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
other sites in english
sitios en español
Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición
sites en français
fonti in italiano
Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
MLA Citation
“Saint Regina“. CatholicSaints.Info. 7 September
2020. Web. 7 September 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-regina/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-regina/
Regina (Regnia, Reine) of
Autun VM (RM)
Born in Alise (Alesia),
Burgundy, France; died c. 251 or 286. Regina has been venerated at Autun from
an early date and was probably martyred under the persecution of Decius or
Maximian Herecleus; however, we have no particulars of her life, so her clients
developed a suitable one for her.
Thus, it is related that
Regina's father, Clement, was a prominent pagan citizen; her mother died in
giving her life. The baby was entrusted to the care of a Christian nurse who
had her baptized, which, to put it mildly, didn't please her father. He repudiated
his daughter, refusing to ever see her again. The nurse was poor, so she sent
Regina to tend her little flock of sheep. The young saint found this to be a
pleasing occupation because it provided her with the time and solitude to pray
and read the lives of the saints.
Too soon the little girl
grew to womanhood and attracted the attention of the prefect of the province,
Olybrius, who decided that she would be his bride. Regina, having dedicated her
life to God, rejected his advances. Her father was willing to accept her as his
daughter when he knew that she had a distinguished suitor, but she rejected his
entreaties as well. As Olybrius was setting out on a journey, he had Regina
imprisoned--the chief jailer was her own father, who carefully guarded his
daughter in order to ensure his own advancement. He encased her in an iron belt
joined by two chains to opposite walls.
When Olybrius returned,
he again tried to sway Regina to become his wife. Again she rejected him. In
his anger he had her scourged over a wooden horse, her nails torn from their
beds, and her skin rent by iron hooks. Regina recovered from her injuries
immediately after being returned to her cell. That night in prison, she had a
vision of the cross, and a voice told her that her release would be soon. The
next day Olybrius began the process again, this time using torches on her side,
crucifixion, and finally decapitation. Many witnesses are said to have been
converted by the appearance of a dove hovering over her head.
The story is entirely a
Burgundian adaptation of the legend of Saint Marina or Margaret of Antioch. Her
relics are enshrined in Flavigni abbey, to which they were translated in 864,
and where they have been rendered famous by miracles and pilgrimages. There is
a miraculous spring with powers to heal ringworm, mange, scurvy, and other
illnesses, with a hospital nearby dedicated to Saint Regina founded by Saint
Vincent de Paul (Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Husenbeth, White).
In art, Saint Regina is
portrayed as a maiden bound to a cross with torches applied to her sides. She
might also be shown (1) in prison with a dove appearing on a shining cross; (2)
with a lamb or sheep near her (not to be confused with Saint Agnes); (3)
scourged with rods (Roeder); or (4) in a boiling cauldron (White). She is
venerated at Autun, France, and in southern Germany (Roeder).
SOURCE : http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0907.shtml
Weninger’s
Lives of the Saints – Saint Regina, Virgin and Martyr
Article
Saint Regina was born in the year 238, of heathen
parents. Having lost her mother soon after her birth, she was entrusted by her
father to a nurse who happily was a Christian, although this fact was unknown
to him. He left the entire care and education of his beloved child to this
pious woman, whose only object was to make a devout Christian of her little
charge. Hence, as soon as the light of reason began to dawn in the child’s mind,
she taught her to respect the Christian faith, and as God had gifted Regina
with great intelligence, it was not long before she recognized the nothingness
of the idols, and the truth of our holy religion. This knowledge was followed
by the resolution to become a Christian and to be secretly baptized. As the
solicitous nurse knew that Regina s father would raise a furious storm when he
became aware of what had happened, she endeavored to prepare the newly-baptized
Regina for the martyrdom in store for her. She related to her the torments so
many tender youths and maidens had endured for the Christian faith; how
heroically they had suffered, and how miraculously they had been strengthened
by the Almighty; she told her of the great happiness of suffering for Christ’s
sake, and how great a recompense was in store for those who gave their lives
for the confession of their faith. She also explained to her the inexpressible
value of virginal purity so eloquently, that Regina hesitated not to consecrate
her virginity to the Almighty. The desire to gain the crown of martyrdom was
also awakened in the heart of the tender maiden by the words of the pious
nurse, and she prayed daily to God to grant her the grace to die for Christ’s
sake. As she was actuated in all she did by the thought of pleasing the
Almighty, her conduct was such that every one admired and esteemed her.
Her father, ignorant of the fact that she was a
Christian, loved her most devotedly, and was anxious to secure her happiness by
a suitable marriage. When he informed her of this, she said to him: “Dear
father, I know that you love me, and that you only seek my happiness by wishing
to give my hand to the young man of whom you speak. But if I knew some one who
would make me still happier, would you oppose my being united to him?” “So far
from it,” answered the father, “that I should be rejoiced at it. But where will
you find him?” “I have already found him,” said Regina. “It is Jesus Christ, my
Saviour. Him have I chosen; to Him I have pledged my constancy and my faith.”
Stunned at this confession, the father, at first, knew not what to reply.
Having controlled himself somewhat, he exclaimed: “Can it be possible, my
daughter, that you are a Christian? Have you allowed yourself to be so
bewitched, as to embrace so despicable a faith? Never will I give my consent to
it. Consider quickly whether you will see in me your executioner or your
father.” Regina answered fearlessly: “I am not bewitched. The Christian faith
is not despicable; it conduces to one’s greatest honor to be counted among the
faithful. I need no time for consideration; I am a Christian and as such will I
live and die.” Too much enraged to hear or say more, her father left her, and
Regina hastened to her nurse to inform her of what had taken place. The latter
embraced her joyfully and congratulated her on so courageous a beginning, but
also admonished her to pray earnestly for strength from above, to enable her to
conquer in the approaching combat. Regina obeyed and, as predicted by the nurse,
her struggle soon commenced: for, her father endeavored to draw her from Christ
by alternate kind and earnest words, by caresses and by menaces. All, however,
proved unavailing; Regina remained firm in her resolution to live and die a
virgin and a Christian.
At that time, Olibrius, who was governor of Gaul, came
from Marseilles to Alise, where Regina resided. Having heard of Regina, he
immediately sent for her, and informed her that he desired to make her his
consort, and hoped not to be refused, as she could not expect a marriage that
could either give her greater happiness or raise her to a higher dignity.
Regina, although treating him with the utmost politeness, told him frankly,
that she had already attained higher felicity, as she had become a Christian
and had chosen Christ as her spouse. Olibrius, provoked beyond measure at this
reply, and perceiving that neither flatteries nor threats could alter her
resolution, ordered her to be cast into a dungeon, and to be chained in such a
manner, that she could neither sit nor lie down. For one month she endured this
torture, during which time she was persecuted by her father and other relatives
to deny Christ; but all was useless. Their words made no impression on Regina,
who regarding herself most blessed to suffer for Christ’s sake, prayed only to
God to give her grace to die for the true faith. Olibrius had her stretched
upon the rack and so cruelly scourged, that all who witnessed it were filled
with pity, and began loudly to murmur against the barbarous sentence. Fearing
that the people might revolt, the governor remanded her to prison.
The Christian heroine, who passed the night in prayer,
had, at the close of it, a most consoling vision. She saw a large cross which
reached from the earth up into heaven. A bright dove was upon it and she
distinctly heard the words: “Rejoice, thou beloved spouse of Christ 1 Thy
virginity and patience have prepared a crown for thee, which you wilt soon
receive. Thy cross and suffering will become a ladder upon which you wilt ascend
to heaven.” Oh 1 how the virgin’s heart was comforted by this vision! In
accordance with an order of Olibrius, she was again stretched on the rack, on
the following day, and after her bruised and wounded body had been most
barbarously tortured with burning torches, they placed her in a bath of cold
water. During this martyrdom she no longer felt pain, but addressing those
around her, she exhorted them to be converted to the only true God whom she
worshipped. During this speech, she saw the same doev which had appeared to her
in the prison, carrying a precious crown in its beak; and as it came towards
the holy martyr, she heard a voice saying: “Come, Regina, and reign with your
spouse in heaven.” More than 800 pagans were, on this occasion, converted to
the Christian faith. Olibrius, however, remained obdurate, and at length
ordered Regina to be beheaded. Thus this Christian heroine ended her life
gloriously, in her sixteenth year.
Practical Considerations
• Saint Regina had, next to God, to thank her nurse
for her conversion to the true faith, as also her desire for martyrdom and her
constancy during the same; hence she owed her salvation to her nurse’s pious
care. How much good is some- times done by persons of apparently little
consequence! What good might not domestics of both sexes do to each other and
still more to the children in their charge, by giving them wholesome
exhortations, keeping them from evil, and leading them in the path of
rectitude! And how much evil can they cause by holding unchaste discourses in
the presence of children, or perhaps by even tempting them to do wrong! Parents
may well be careful in selecting those to whom they trust their children; for
it is nothing unusual, at the present day, that they are the seducers of
children, who were chosen to keep guard over them. Out of the house with such
servants! Children ought immediately to inform their parents if any one tempts
them to do wrong. Servants and teachers of both sexes ought to remember the
terrible account they will have to render on the Judgment-day, if they have
kept their young charges from the way of virtue and led them in the road to
destruction. They should on the contrary, endeavor to walk before them with a
good example. “But he that shall scandalize one of those little ones that
believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about
his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea,” says Christ
our Lord. (Matthew 18)
• The preservation of her virginity and her patience
have secured, in heaven, a crown for Saint Regina. I do not doubt that you have
to bear a cross, that you have to suffer, and if you have not now, it will come
to you in due time. But will your cross prove to you a ladder by which to
ascend to heaven? The manner in which you bear your misfortunes will decide it.
If you bear them, like Saint Regina, from love to God, with patience, without
murmuring, they will prove a ladder leading you upward to the glories of
heaven; but if you bear them not according to the spirit of Christianity, they
will be a ladder by which you will descend into the darkness of hell. Which do
you prefer? You must suffer; the cross must be borne. Suffer patiently and you
will enter heaven; while by murmuring against Providence, you commit sin, and
may go to eternal destruction. Patience and the preservation of her chastity
have prepared in heaven a crown for Saint Regina; impatience and unchastity
prepare a place in hell for numberless souls. Regina would rather have suffered
the most unheard-of torments, than have lost her virginal purity. What do you
say of this, if you are one of those, who, for some trifling temporal good, or
a short sensuality, have lost forevermore this inestimable treasure, and
besides this, do not even deplore so great a loss? Ah! weep tears of blood as
long as you live, for this blindness, this folly; and surely you have
sufficient cause. Pray humbly to the Almighty to forgive you, and to bestow
upon you the grace to obtain, by true repentance, the crown which you can no longer
gain by virginal chastity. “Let us weep over sin only,” says Saint Chrysostom.
“Blessed are those who weep not for the dead, nor for temporal losses, but over
their iniquities.” But if you still possess the priceless treasure of
virginity, give humble thanks to God, and resolve rather to lose all your
temporal possessions, yes, even your life, than to be deprived of it by sin.
“Your virginal chastity is your greatest wealth, your most priceless, your
irreparable treasure,” writes Saint Jerome. It is a treasure which will obtain
for youan especial glory in Heaven!
MLA Citation
Father Francis Xavier Weninger, DD, SJ. “Saint Regina,
Virgin and Martyr”. Lives of the Saints, 1876. CatholicSaints.Info.
30 April 2018. Web. 7 September 2021.
<https://catholicsaints.info/weningers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-regina-virgin-and-martyr/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/weningers-lives-of-the-saints-saint-regina-virgin-and-martyr/
Saint Regina, Martyr
by
September 7
Today is the feast day of Saint Regina. Ora pro
nobis.
Legend has it that Saint Regina was the daughter of a
pagan aristocrat named Clement, in Alise, Burgundy. Her mother died in
childbirth. Regina’s father placed her upbringing in the care of a
Christian nurse attached to the family, who recognizing her sanctity. The
nurse secretly baptized her. Regina was driven from her
family’s home because of her faith, and lived as a poor, prayerful shepherdess.
Regina lived with her nurse, worked in the fields by
day, tending sheep, to help support the household. In the fields, Regina grew
closer to the Lord, meditating and contemplating His love and mercy, and
praying to better emulate the lives of the holy saints and martyrs.
At the age of fifteen, Regina caught the eye of the
prefect of Gaul, Olybrius, a man of great importance. He became obsessed with
the young woman, and was determined to take her as his bride. He delighted in
her noble upbringing, but was deeply disturbed to find that she was practicing
the Christian faith. At that time, Christians were being violently persecuted
and killed, under the direction of the Emperor Decius. Olybrius attempted to
persuade her to deny her faith, so as to not only save her from persecution,
but to secure her as a wife. She declined, refusing to recant her faith, and
professing it all the louder. In retaliation, Olybrius had her imprisoned.
Regina was chained to the walls of a dark prison cell
by means of an iron belt that was bolted to the wall. There she was left while
Olybrius participated in several military campaigns against invading
barbarians, returning to his daily activities. After an absence of some time,
he returned, hoping she may have changed her mind. On the contrary, her imprisonment
had served to strengthen her resolve to live like the saints and martyrs, and
maintain her chastity for the Lord. She refused to sacrifice to idols, and he
angrily ordered her tortured. Regina courageously withstood whippings and
scourging over the back of a wooden horse, raking with iron combs, burning with
hot pincers and torches, and crucifixion. None of these could cause her to
doubt the Lord or recant her faith, and as she continued to praise God. Lastly,
she was beheaded, ending her life and her conversion of many witnesses present
who observed a solitary dove hovering atop her head during her torture.
The relics of Saint Regina are enshrined in Flavigni
abbey, having been translated there in 864. Since that time, numerous miracles
have been attributed to their presence, and frequent pilgrimages are made by
the faithful to venerate them.
Saint Regina is considered the patron saint against
poverty, and patroness of shepherdesses and torture victims. Given the accounts
of her martyrdom, in art, Saint Regina is portrayed as a maiden bound to a
cross with torches applied to her sides, imprisoned with a dove appearing on a
shining cross, scourged with rods, or in a boiling cauldron. She is venerated
at Autun, France, and in southern Germany.
Research by REGINA Staff
http://catholicsaints.info/saint-regina/
http://365rosaries.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-7-saint-regina.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StRegina.JPG
http://traditionalcatholic.net/Tradition/Calendar/09-07.html
SOURCE : https://www.reginamag.com/saint-regina-martyr/
Hellmonsödt ( Oberösterreich ). Pfarrkirche hl.
Alexius - Hochaltar ( 18.Jhdt. ): Heilige Regina
Hellmonsödt ( Upper Austria ). Saint Alexius parish
church: High altar ( 18th century ) - Saint Regina.
Santa Regina di Alise Vergine e martire
Alise (Gallia), III secolo
Etimologia: Regina = sovrana, signora,
significato intuitivo
Emblema: Giglio, Palma
Martirologio Romano: Ad Alise in Francia, santa
Regina, martire.
Di s. Regina (in francese Reine) si hanno solo pochissime notizie, ci pervengono da un testimone che si dichiara oculare; nacque e visse ad Alise (Gallia), presso Autun, nel III secolo e la madre morì durante il parto, cresciuta abbracciò la fede cristiana; si sa che il padre Olibrio pagano, dopo aver tentato vanamente di convincerla a recedere, la fece imprigionare e poi decapitare, evidentemente era un capo nella Gallia del III secolo.
Il martirio avvenne ad Alise, il luogo dove il condottiero dei Galli Vercingetorige, venne fatto prigioniero dal condottiero romano Giulio Cesare; Regina accettò sebbene giovanissima i tormenti del martirio, compiendo una scelta ben precisa, scelse di chiudere la sua vita terrena, per aprirne sicuramente una migliore, che le avrebbe offerto un regno assai più fulgido e duraturo.
In contrasto con le scarne notizie sulla sua vita, il culto per s. Regina ebbe una diffusione enorme, specie in Francia, in Borgogna, Alise (Alesia), Flavigny e in Germania ad Osnabrück; queste ultime due città furono protagoniste nel secolo XVII di una controversia, perché ognuna affermava di avere le reliquie della martire, nel 1693 il vescovo di Autun mise fine alla controversia, autorizzando le due città ad esporre ognuna le sue reliquie.
Ciò che è certo che prima del 628, Regina era venerata ad Alesia e verso il 750 sorgeva in quel luogo una basilica in cui si credeva fossero le sue reliquie, annesso vi era anche un monastero; nell’854 le reliquie furono trasportate a Flavigny, dove sono conservate anche le catene della sua prigionia.
Chiese intitolate al suo nome sorsero un po’ dovunque, il culto arrivò nel secolo XVII anche a Parigi, una Confraternita fondata nel 1604 presso la chiesa di s. Eustachio, porta il suo nome, Ste-Reine.
Nell’arte è raffigurata con la tradizionale palma del martirio, con l’ascia con la quale fu decapitata e con le catene che la tennero imprigionata.
La sua antichissima festa religiosa è al 7 settembre, data che è riportata ancora oggi in tutti i calendari.
Autore: Antonio Borrelli
SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/69500
Voir aussi : https://www.mairie-alise-sainte-reine.fr/sainte-reine
