The Holy Female Martyr Iraida
Today we celebrate the Holy, Female Martyr Iraida. St. Iraida is from the town of Batan in Egypt. One day while drawing water from a well near the sea, she saw a ship carrying priests, deacons, monks, and women who were all Christians. She learned that they were being transported so that they could be tortured and killed for being Christians. Upon hearing this, she felt a deep desire to suffer for the Lord. Leaving everything at the well, she boarded the ship, saying that she too was a Christian. She was immediately placed with the others, and taken to Antinopolis where shew as beheaded after being tortured.
I find this story beautiful. St. Iraida has an immediate conversion due to the witness of the other Christians on board the ship. How are we witnessing to our fellow brothers and sisters when we live out our call in ordinary life? We may not know of someone's immediate conversion, or even gradual conversion, but we're called to witness day-in-day-out to the love of God. And then God will do the rest!
I find this story beautiful. St. Iraida has an immediate conversion due to the witness of the other Christians on board the ship. How are we witnessing to our fellow brothers and sisters when we live out our call in ordinary life? We may not know of someone's immediate conversion, or even gradual conversion, but we're called to witness day-in-day-out to the love of God. And then God will do the rest!
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