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Casilda of Toledo

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Feast
  
April 9

Name
  
Casilda Toledo

Role
  
Saint


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Venerated in
  
Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church

Attributes
  
Roses in her basket or dress

Died
  
1050, Salinillas de Bureba, Spain

Saint Casilda of Toledo (Spanish: Santa Casilda de Toledo) (died c. 1050) is venerated as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Church. Her feast day is April 9.

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Life

According to her legend, St. Casilda, a daughter of a Muslim king of Toledo (called Almacrin or Almamun), showed great compassion for Christian prisoners by frequently sneaking bread into the prison, hidden in her clothes, to feed them.

Once, she was stopped by Muslim soldiers and asked to reveal what she was carrying in her skirt. When she began to show them, the bread turned into a bouquet of roses.

She was raised a Muslim, but when she became ill as a young woman, she refused help from the local Arab doctors and traveled to northern Iberia to partake of the healing waters of the shrine of San Vicente, near Buezo, close to Briviesca. When she was cured, she was baptized at Burgos (where she was later venerated) and lived a life of solitude and penance not far from the miraculous spring. It is said that she lived to be 100 years old.

Painted between 1638 and 1642, Zurbarán's Santa Casilda used as its model a lady of the Spanish court. She wears the fashions for courtiers of the time.

References

Casilda of Toledo Wikipedia