Holy Restitute

Two holy Holy Restitute or Restitude appear in the Roman Martyrologe:

Restitute d' Abitène , martyrdom in North Africa in 303, originating in Teniza, celebrates on February 12th
Restitute de Sora , martyrdom in Campania into 272, also called of Sora, celebrates on May 27th.

Holy Restitute de Teniza

This holy, virgin and African martyrdom, would have been born in Teniza close to current the Bizerte in Tunisia at the end of the 3rd century. It was formed at the school of the bishop Saint Cyprien de Carthage. From February 303 at February 304 the Roman Emperor Dioclétien sign 4 edicts against Christianity and it is the beginning of the Persécutions of Dioclétien. After its abdication in 305 it will be the emperor Galère who will continue persecutions which will last ten years. The Christians must abjure their religion.

They are brought to foot, are connected, until Carthage where they undergo a interrogation in the presence of the proconsul Anulinus. February 12th, 304, not wanting to disavow their religion, they are tortured and condemned to death. Sainte Restitute is vraisemblamement one of the 14 women of the group of the 49 known Christians martyrized under the name of the Martyrs of Abitène.

Caption

After judgebeing judged, it is placed in a boat filled with packing to be burned alive. As soon as arrived at sea the torturers, who were in another boat, light the packing. Restitute starts to request and fire, hardly lit, is turned over towards its torturers who die in atrocious sufferings.

The wind coming from Africa pushes the boat and guided by an angel, fails itself on the beach of San Montano in the island of Ischia close to Naples in Italy. A Christian patrician, informed by the sign of an angel, runs towards the beach and finds in the boat an intact body. The body is deposited in a burial and the relics will be then taken along to Naples.

The worship

In 311 Galère, before dying, stops persecutions and tolerates the catholic worship. Constantin Large the becomes emperor and is converted with the religion catholique.
the diffusion of the worship of holy Restitute into Italy is certainly related to the persecutions perpetrated in 429 in North Africa by the Vandales under the orders of Genséric. Its remainders would have been brought back to Ischia by Christians being exiled towards Italy. Its worship gained Naples where the basilica, which was the first cathedral of Naples, bore its name. Its festival celebrates on May 17th.

The worship in France

Towards 852 the count de Moreuil, lord of Picardy share with Rome to defend the pope Leon IV against the threats of invasion of the Buckwheats. In thanks of its services he sees himself proposing rich person present but he refuses asking for only the remainders of holy Restitute which he brings back to France in his county. To go in its village of Moreuil common of the department of the Somme the convoy passes by the village of Arcy and made there halt. There, the holy one would have shown by signs that she wanted to remain in this village. The Châsse, which had been posed on the ground, became very heavy and the soldiers cannot give it on the carriage. Two miracles occur then. The first: a fountain spouts out. The second: a mother carrying her child still-born child in her arms passes close to the mounting. The child ressuscite and known as " Stop here; Stop ici". From where, perhaps the name of the village of Arcy-Holy-Restores common Département of Aisne. The count leaves the mounting in the vault Martin
saint. In 863 Louis II of France, known as the Stammerer, who had been crowned emperor in 850 by the pope Leon IV, orders that the holy relics are moved to escape the devastations from the Vikings. It is certainly the case of holy Restitute whose one humérus is visible in a mounting in the common church of Touquin of the Département of Seine-et-Marne.

Holy Restitute de Sora

The hagiographal ones think of a doublet of holy Restitute de Teniza. Remain nevertheless a assured worship with Sora in Italy. Its festival is celebrated on May 27th.

Sources

http://santibeati.it/search/jump
http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/7007/Sainte-Restitute.html
Catholicisme.Encyclopédie of the catholic Institute of Lille. Editor Bookstore Letouzet and Ané

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