"Most blessed among women is Jael, / The wife of Heber the Kenite; / Blessed is she among women in tents. / He asked f…"

"Yes, that God who in the crimson wave | closed the river that pursued Israel, | who placed the hammer in the fist of …"

"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…"

"[January 21] Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, who, while still a girl in Rome, offered the supreme testimony…"