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St. Corona
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St. Corona is commemorated with St. Victor on May 14 as a martyr in Syria. The Benedictine Book of Saints of 1921 preserves their commemoration while cautioning that the detailed accounts of their sufferings are uncertain.
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ⓘ Supplemental reading source
Novena Regina editorial adaptation of the Benedictine Monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, The Book of Saints (A. & C. Black, London, 1921), p. 266, "Victor and Corona," May 14.
Corona is commemorated with St. Victor on May 14. The Benedictine monks of Ramsgate, writing in The Book of Saints in 1921, remember them as Christians who suffered martyrdom in Syria for their faith. Their notice places the martyrdom in the second century.
The same reference warns that the manuscripts behind the fuller accounts of their sufferings had been questioned by scholars. Their commemoration can therefore be retained without presenting every detail of the later narratives as certain. Their feast recalls their witness to Christ; the surviving notice does not provide a dependable account of their daily lives.
Historical note
This supplemental reading follows the Benedictine Book of Saints of 1921 and retains its caution about the fuller martyrdom narratives.
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