[Officium]
St. Prisca, Virgin and Martyr

[Oratio]
Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, unto all thy servants who do here keep the birthday of thy blessed Virgin and Martyr Prisca, and do year by year rejoice at her solemn commemoration, that they may have grace to follow after the pattern of her great faith.
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[Lectio93]
!Commemoration of St. Prisca, Virgin and Martyr.
Prisca was a noble Roman maiden, who at thirteen years of age was accused of Christianity before the Emperor Claudius. By his command she was taken to the temple of Apollo to sacrifice there, and when she refused, was buffeted and sent to prison. She was taken out from thence again, but as she still held steadfastly to the faith, they flogged her, poured boiling tallow upon her, and sent her back a second time. She was at last thrown to a lion in the amphitheatre, but it quietly lay down at her feet. She was starved for three days in a slaves' prison house, and then tortured upon the rack. Pieces of flesh were next torn from her body with iron hooks, and she was thrown on a burning pile. She marvellously still remained alive, and was accordingly beheaded outside the city. Thus she added the crown of martyrdom to the palm of virginity. The Christians buried her body at the tenth milestone on the road from Rome to Ostia on the eighteenth of January.
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