"Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the Lord gone out before you?"

"Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel, / Until I, Deborah, arose, / Arose a mother in Israel."

"Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Debo…"

"Eventually, Jacob and his household arrived at Luz (also called Bethel) in Canaan. Jacob built an altar there and nam…"

"Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and ha…"

"In Rome, in the cemetery of Callixtus on the Appian Way, memory of St. Cecilia, virgin and martyr, who, as tradition …"

"Cecilia, an illustrious virgin, born of noble Roman lineage, was raised from the cradle in the faith of Christ. She a…"

"Almachio then had her taken back to his house and ordered that she be burned by keeping her in a boiling bath night a…"

"Agnese, a young woman full of wisdom, as Ambrogio tells us in his “Passione,” left death behind and found life at the…"

"Then the prefect had her stripped and taken to the brothel. But the Lord made Agnes' hair so thick that it covered he…"