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Saint Charitina contested for Christ during the reign of Diocletian, in the year
290. The handmaid of a certain Claudius, she was betrayed as a Christian
to Dometian, the Count, before whom she fearlessly confessed Christ.
After suffering the most terrible tortures, including the uprooting
of her teeth and nails, she gave up her soul into the hands of the
Lord.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone:
O Lord Jesus, unto Thee Thy lamb doth cry with a great voice: O my
Bridegroom, Thee I love; and seeking Thee, I now contest, and with
Thy baptism am crucified and buried. I suffer for Thy sake, that
I may reign with Thee; for Thy sake I die, that I may live in Thee:
accept me offered out of longing to Thee as a spotless sacrifice.
Lord, save our souls through her intercessions, since Thou art great
in mercy.
Kontakion in the Fourth Tone:
Reddened with martyric blood, thou wast arrayed in Heaven's beauty
splendidly, when thou hadst overcome the foe, O Charitina, and thou
didst cry: Thou art the joy of the Martyrs, O Christ our God.
Source: http://www.goarch.org
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