Prayer to Santa Reparata to be recited today for help

O Virgin and Martyr, Santa Reparata, you were still a teenager, you were fascinated by the love of Christ and you preferred it to any other earthly project, until you accepted martyrdom so as not to betray it, we beg you to intercede for us with the Father who chooses the milder and weaker creatures to confuse the power of the world.
Get us to believe that the life given to the love of Christ is not lost, but gained. It raises the courage and joy of chastity in young people.
Implicate from the wisdom of the Spirit the clarity of faith to be able to make generous choices today in response to God's calls. Pray for everyone so that we can always feel close, even in the moments of the hardest trials, Jesus who died for us and gave to You the strength to die for Him, in praise and glory of God.
Amen.

Reparata (Caesarea maritime, ... - Caesarea maritime, 250) was a young woman martyred during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius; she is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

It was very popular during the Middle Ages, particularly revered in various Italian locations (Tuscany, Abruzzo and Sardinia) and French (Corsica and Provence).

Ancient sources do not mention it: even the father of ecclesiastical historiography, Eusebio, who was the bishop of Caesarea between 313 and 340 and who has handed down the memory of many martyrs of his city, never mentions it.

The first to remember it was Beda the Venerable in his Martyrology (1586th century). It was ascribed in the Roman Martyrology (1589 - 8) on the day XNUMX October, the one in which he would suffer martyrdom.

According to the Passio, she would have been a girl of noble lineage: during the persecutions of the Roman emperor Decius (between 249 and 251), having refused to sacrifice to the gods, at the age of 12 she would have been subjected to various tortures and then decapitated.

Life sources from Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reparata_di_Cesarea_di_Palestina