Sunday, March 29, 2020

Hagia Sophia to be Used For Islamic Prayers Again

[Greek City Times] As much of the world is struggling against the coronavirus pandemic, the Islamists in Turkey appear to hold on to their everlasting agenda: Forced Islamization and violation of non-Muslims.
Adhan (Islamic call to prayer) and the Koranic verses  Surat Al-Fath and Surat An Nasr were recited by two “imams” of the Hagia Sophia Church/museum, the pro-government newspaper Yeni Akit reported on March 23. The paper called the historic Cathedral the “Grand Hagia Sophia Mosque”.
“For the first time in history, acoustic test recordings of adhan and the Koran, which were recited with naked voice, were made in Hagia Sophia,” the paper said.
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Friday, March 27, 2020

Toronto: Beer and Pot Stores Stay Open While Churches Close

TORONTO, March 25, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — At least four Ontario Catholic archdioceses — including the province’s largest dioceses of Ottawa and Toronto — have locked their churches indefinitely in the face of the Wuhan flu pandemic even as the province’s pot, beer, and liquor stores remain open.
Premier Doug Ford’s government ordered a mandatory shutdown of all non-essential services that begins at midnight March 24 and will last at least 14 days, and which exempts 74 businesses or services deemed “essential” — including beer stores, the provincial Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) outlets, and cannabis stores.
But it is not clear at this point exactly what health authority ordered the closure of churches in particular regions, and specifically in Toronto.
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Extraordinary Blessing Urbi et Orbi at 1800 Hours

The Vatican is in fact in self-quarantine. At 6:00 p.m. Pope Francis blesses Urbi et Orbi.


(Rome) The good news: Pope Francis also tested negative for coronavirus in the second test. The bad news: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. And two more messages: The Osservatore Romano has stopped printing because of the pandemic and today at 6 p.m. Pope Francis is giving an extraordinary blessing to Urbi et Orbi.

The closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher dates back to the Israeli government, which issued the order to curb the spread of the Coronavirus on March 25, the Feast of the Annunciation.
For the time being, the closure is for a week, as representatives of the Israeli police and the five churches that have a stake in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher announced at a joint press conference. The communities located in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where they are traditionally locked up at night, have announced that they will continue to celebrate the sacred liturgy at the usual times.

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem was closed by the Israeli government until Palm Sunday



"The prayers in the basilica continue with greater intensity."

"We will pray to ask Heavenly Father to end the pandemic, to heal the sick, to protect health workers, for wisdom for the shepherds and rulers, for the salvation of those who have lost their lives."

This is the statement in a statement released yesterday by the Franciscan Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton OFM, the Greek Orthodox and the Armenian Apostolic Patriarch of Jerusalem. According to the status quo regulation, these three churches share the administration of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Pope Francis has since been tested for a second time for coronavirus. A prelate from the Vatican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who lives in Santa Marta, had to be admitted to the Pontifical Gemelli Clinic because of the coronavirus. The second test also showed that the Pope was not infected.
Almost the entire Vatican is now in voluntary quarantine. Because of their old age, an above-average number of prelates belong to the risk groups.


A second test on Pope Francis was also negative.

Meanwhile, the Osservatore Romano has discontinued the printed edition with reference to the pandemic. There have long been plans to forego the costly paper output and to appear in a completely different form or only digitally. The Vatican is currently lacking the most important source of income, the endless queues of tourists who want to visit the Papal States.

As he announced last Sunday, the church leader will be leading the prayer of the faithful around the world at 6:00 pm tonight and praying for an end to the pandemic.

Pope Francis will say the prayer in front of St. Peter's Basilica, although St. Peter's Square will be deserted. The head of the church called on all Catholics to connect with him on the occasion through the various means of communication. During the prayer the word of God is read, followed by a few words of the Pope, then the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and finally the papal blessing Urbi et Orbi, with which the possibility of obtaining a complete indulgence is connected.

This special blessing is usually only donated twice a year: on Christmas Day and Easter Sunday. Because of the ongoing pandemic, Pope Francis decided to donate him today.

The Pope, through the great penitentiary, already last week gave all believers who pray for the end of the pandemic and for the dying the opportunity to have complete indulgences provided they meet the usual conditions as soon as they are able to do so again.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: InfoVaticana
Trans: Tancred vekron@hotmail.com

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Tuesday, March 24, 2020

At Least 65 Priests Have Fallen to Corona in Italy


 At least 65 priests have already fallen victim to the corona virus in Italy.

(Rome) The count hurts. However, it is part of reality and therefore necessary: ​​at least 65 priests (as of March 23) have already died in Italy as a result of the coronavirus infection. The Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference, documents their names. The oldest of these priests was 104 years old, the youngest 45 years old.

While devout Catholics criticize the pastoral measures in connection with the coronavirus or at least complain about a hesitant attitude, many priests are exposed in particularly hard-hit areas.
Although the diocesan priests make up only 0.05 percent of the total population, they make up one percent of the dead. This means that their share of coronavirus victims is twenty times higher than their share of the population. Numbers that say something.
The Bergamo diocese, like the province of the same name in Lombardy, is most severely affected by the coronavirus epidemic. At least 20 priests of the diocese have succumbed to the coronavirus. Most of them were still involved in pastoral care, despite some of them having advanced ages. They should be named as witnesses
Diocese of Bergamo
Monsignor Achille Belotti
Monsignor Tarcisio Ferrari
Don Mariano Carrara
Don Savino Tamanza
Don Battista Mignani
Don Alessandro Longo
Don Adriano Locatelli
Don Ettore Persico
Don Donato Forlani
Don Enzo Zoppetti
Don Francesco Perico
Don Gianni Pietro Paganessi
Don Remo Luiselli
Don Gaetano Burini
Don Umberto Tombini
Don Giuseppe Berardelli
Don Giancarlo Nava
Don Silvano Sirtoli
Don Tarcisio Casali

The oldest priest among the mountain masks was 91, the youngest 59 years old.
Pastoral care in the age of the corona virus presents priests with new challenges. The bodies are all being cremated in Italy by government order. A funeral is made impossible by the state because of curfew or restrictions on meetings, and by the church because of the suspension of Mass and religious ceremonies. The coronavirus infected mostly die lonely in intensive care units. The relatives cannot even say goodbye. Not to mention the concerns about cremation.
The dead among the priests who are mourned by the other dioceses:

Archdiocese of Milan

Don Giancarlo Quadri
Don Franco Carnevali
Don Cesare Meazza
Don Marco Barbetta
Don Luigi Giussani
Don Ezio Bisiello
Diocese of Parma
Don Giorgio Bocchi
Don Pietro Montali
Don Andrea Avanzini
Don Franco Minardi
Don Fermo Fanfoni
Don Giuseppe Fadani
Diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio
Don Giorgio Bosini
Don Mario Boselli
Don Giovanni Boselli
Don Giovanni Cordani
Don Paolo Camminati
Don Giuseppe Castelli
Don Giovanni and Don Mario Boselli are twin brothers. Both died a few days apart.
Diocese of Cremona
Monsignor Giuseppe Aresi
Don Vincenzo Rini
Don Mario Cavalleri
Don Albino Aglio
Diocese of Brescia
Monsignor Domenico Gregorelli
Don Giuseppe Toninelli
Don Giovanni Girelli
Diocese of Pesaro
Don Zenaldo del Vecchio
Don Graziano Ceccolini
Don Giuseppe Scarpetti
Archdiocese of Trento
Don Luigi Trottner
Don Salvatore Tonini

The names of the priests who died in the other Italian dioceses:
Don Guido Mortari, Diocese of Reggio Emilia-Guastalla
Don Luigi Bosotti, Diocese of Pavia
Don Carlo Patti, Diocese of Lodi
Don Mario Defechi, Diocese of Casale Monferrato
Don Giacomo Buscaglia, Diocese of Tortona
Don Alessandro Brignone, Diocese of Salerno-Campagna-Acerno
Don Antonio Di Stasio, Diocese of Ariano Irpino-Lacedonia
Don Pietro Muggianu, Diocese of Nuoro

Dozens of diocesan priests are infected with the corona virus, some are in mortal danger.
Religious priest

The situation among religious has hardly been reconstructed. The Avvenire lists the following deaths:

P. Giuseppe Serighelli, Passionist (CP)
P. Edmondo Zagano, Passionist (CP)
P. Gerardo Bottarelli, Passionist (CP)
P. Remo Rota, Eucharist (SSS)
P. Nicola Masi, Xaverian Missionary (SX)
P. Kidane Berhane, Cistercian (OCist)
P. Tarcisio Stramare, Oblate of Saint Joseph (OSI)

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Avvenire (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Italian Priest Sacrifices His Life for Younger Patient

[Daily Mail] An Italian priest died of coronavirus after giving a respirator that his parishioners bought for him to a younger patient, it has been revealed. 

 Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, from Casigno in Italy's hardest-hit Lombardy region, died in a local hospital in recent days after being diagnosed with the virus.

Berardelli had been given a respirator - which are in desperately short supply - by parishioners concerned about his health but decided to give it to a younger patient who he didn't know but was struggling to breathe because of the virus. 

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Monday, March 23, 2020

War: Turkish Security Forces Shoot at Greek Border Guards

As the Corona crisis paralyzes the world, the Islamic rush to Europe continues: Sunday evening hundreds of invaders tried to storm the Greek border. Turkish officials shot over 1,000 tear gas grenades at Greek border officials.

“At the Greek-Turkish border, there were again incidents at the Kastanies / Pazarkule crossing. A group of around 200 migrants felled a tree on Sunday evening and damaged the border fence on the Greek side,” reports Oe24.




"Turkish security forces have tried to help hundreds of Afghan, Pakistani and Syrian migrants across the Greek border," BBC commentator Babak Taghvaee reported on Twitter. "Turkish plainclothes intelligence officers fired tear gas grenades at Greek border guards."

"Is that a declaration of war by Turkey against Greece?" Asked the BBC correspondent. "The video clearly shows that Turkish officials fired tear gas and smoke grenades at Greek border guards to help Afghan, Pakistani and Syrian migrants cross the Greek border."

“On Sunday, Turkish police officers in Evros shot over 1,000 tear gas grenades at Greek border guards in the evenings. This is an attack on the EU's external border. Where's the reporting on that?” Said Petr Bystron, AfD chairman in the Foreign Affairs Committee. “It is always astonishing that the public service broadcaster wants to convince us that the illegal migrants are primarily children and families - although recordings circulating almost simultaneously on the Internet showed that the rush on the Turkish-Greek border was above all, done by young men from Pakistan and Afghanistan and not by families with young children.”

"The Federal Government continues to violate Article 16a of the Basic Law, the Schengen and Dublin rules and the Residence and Asylum Act through the additional admissions. The - purely verbal - ministerial decree of Thomas de Maiziere from 2015, according to which everyone should be admitted to Germany, must be lifted immediately by Interior Minister Seehofer and the effective border control restored,” said Bystron.

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Half of Seminarians and All Priests at Wigratzbad Have Corona

OPFENBACH, Germany, March 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Almost all priests and roughly half of the seminarians currently at a German seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a traditionalist community of priests and seminarians, have been infected by the coronavirus.
On the evening of March 13, the seminary had first announced that a priest, who stayed at the seminary as a guest, had contracted the virus. At the time, the community, which is dedicated to the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, had stated that all Masses in Wigratzbad would take place without the seminarians joining.
“With the powerful help of faith, hope and charity, we do not let ourselves be discouraged. In a few days, the first healed ones will be able to take over from the newly sick, to maintain the spiritual and material life of the house,” the seminary community wrote.


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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Archbishop Crepaldi: “The EU is Dead! Cause of Death:Coronavirus”

Archbishop Crepaldi, Bishop of Trieste and an outstanding representative of Catholic social teaching, notes the death of the EU in his latest statement - cause of death: coronavirus.

 Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, the Bishop of Trieste and emeritus chair of the International Observatory Cardinal Van Thuan for the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the most outstanding representatives of Catholic social teaching.  He has now published a document on the coronavirus crisis, in which he states "the death of the European Union by Coronavirus".  The Archbishop of Trieste wrote, among other things:

 “The experience of the past few days has shown that the European Union is not only divided, but a phantom.  There have been selfish disputes among member states rather than cooperation.  Italy is isolated and left alone.  The European Commission intervened late and the European Central Bank intervened poorly.  Given the epidemic, every state has shut itself down.  The resources that Italy needs to deal with the emergency, which would have been associated with currency devaluation at other times, for example, now depend on the Union's decisions, which we have to bow to.

“The Corona virus has definitely exposed the artificiality of the European Union.  It is unable to achieve cooperation between the states to which it has imposed itself through the transfer of sovereignty.  The lack of moral cement was not compensated for by the institutional and political cement.  This inglorious end of the European Union by the corona virus is to be noted.  It is also important to think that cooperation between European countries in the fight for health is also possible outside of supranational political institutions.”

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
 Picture: Correspondenza Romana
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Luxembourg’s Jesuit Cardinal Doesn’t Believe in Miracles

Cardinal Hollerich, Jesuit and Archbishop of Luxembourg.

(Luxembourg) Luxembourg has only 614,000 inhabitants, half of whom are foreigners, mainly because of the EU institutions. Despite being such a small country, the Grand Duchy has almost 500 people infected with coronavirus. For comparison: the Empire of Japan, which has a population of 126,860,000, two hundred and seven times more, almost only Japanese, does not even have twice as many diseases with 963 cases.

The first coronavirus case only occurred in Luxembourg on February 29 and in Japan on January 16. A significant number of illnesses (more than 25) were only reached in Luxembourg on March 12 and in Japan on February 5.

Luxembourg, open to all sides, which reacted just as late as other EU member states, has been affected by the coronavirus epidemic a hundred times more quickly than Japan in a much shorter period of time.

The Archbishop of the Grand Duchy, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich SJ, who is also President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), is also in quarantine.

The cardinal commented on the coronavirus epidemic in a telephone conversation with the Luxemburger Wort, the country's largest daily newspaper, the majority of which is owned by the archdiocese. The advocate of open borders said that "some people" didn't "believe" in miracles.
Archbishop Hollerich was asked what he said to the faithful, who were disappointed and outraged by the bishops' draconian measures to suspend all masses in some countries. His answer:

 “Most people understand this because it's about saving lives. Saving the lives of the elderly and the vulnerable part of the population, not putting them at risk. And most people take it very well. But there are also some who complain: And now we are being taken away! Or where there is such a belief in miracles, which I do not share. ”

The cardinal's sober-sounding answer is rather sobering. Belief in miracles plays an important role in Christian belief, because through miracles Christ has revealed Himself as the Messiah and son of God and testified to his authority.

For Cardinal Hollerich, does this all belong to a distant past that no longer plays a role today and now? Does Cardinal Hollerich believe that God has withdrawn from his creation? Or does he believe that God can no longer work miracles in the 21st century? Or does the cardinal make a probability calculation?

No matter how you look at it, such an answer comes from the mouth of a prince. Or is it perhaps a good fit with the European Union, which he represents as the chairman of the episcopal conferences?
The questioning of the archbishop and confrom of Pope Francis appears questionable in another respect. The journalist of the Luxemburger Wort emphasized that petition processions are being held in several locations to seek protection from the almighty against the epidemic. Throughout the ages, petition processions have been a tried and tested means of Christianity to seek heaven's help against epidemics and other evils.

Cardinal Hollerich, however, vigorously contradicted:

“I call the faithful to prayer, but never to processions. The only ones who enjoy processions are the viruses. ”
The cardinal's horizontal view seems to lack the vertical perspective. The Jesuit, who was created by Pope Francis a Cardinal in October 2019, may be surprised, but there are still devout Catholics who believe in miracles and who are convinced that God, as the creator of heaven and earth, really is Lord of all creation and that it is entirely conceivable that He wants to say something to humanity even with a coronavirus pandemic.

This is contrasted by shepherds who limit themselves to being willing and hasty executors of state instructions, even in areas such as culture where the state has no jurisdiction.

Cardinal Hollerich emphasized: "Protecting life must be an absolute priority", but some might doubt that he meant eternal life.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi
Image: Luxemburger Wort (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Pope Warns: “We Need to Be Distrustful of Socialist Propaganda”

[TFP.ORG] The Pope was Benedict XV (1914-1922). He warned the faithful against the evils of socialism in a document issued exactly one hundred years ago this month on March 11, 1920.

The title says it all: “Epistle Soliti Nos: On the Need to Beware of Socialist Propaganda.”1 Although a century old, Pope Benedict’s warning remains perfectly up to date. It seems appropriate to present a summary here.2

However, the facts that gave rise to this pontifical warning must first be told.

Ideal Culture Medium for Socialist and Communist Propaganda

The pontificate of Benedict XV (1914-1922) took place during one of the most troubled periods in history. There was the First World War, which the Pope called “the suicide of civilized Europe,” with all its horrors of death and destruction. The conflict was followed by a sinister procession of revolutions (notably the Bolshevik Revolution). The “Spanish flu,” one of the deadliest epidemics in human history, struck at this time.

The “chaos and dramatic change that had arisen from the ashes of devastated Europe — the fall of empires, the creation of new states, the seizure of Russia by communism”3 — created an ideal culture medium for the germination of socialist and communist propaganda: political and social unrest, economic crisis, unemployment, misery and hunger.

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Friday, March 20, 2020

Swedish “Priest” Arrested for Smuggling Invader in Suitcase

Camilla Ulén, a priest in Gävle, Sweden, has been accused of smuggling an Afghan migrant out of a detention facility in a suitcase.
The 20-year-old migrant, who was being held pending deportation, disappeared on February 23, according to a report in Nyheter Idag. He was visited by two women shortly before his disappearance, one of whom was a priest from the Church of Sweden. The priest was carrying a large suitcase which she told authorities was to be used for a baptism.
Sweden’s Migration Board has since accused the priest of helping the migrant to escape. Its Director General, Mikael Ribbenvik, said in a statement that the incident had damaged the Board’s trust in the Church of Sweden. “We were tricked,” he said.

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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Arsonists Set Fire to Ancient Catholic Church in France

Arsonists set fire to the church of Saint-Apollinaire in eastern France this week, after which the parish priest declared, “This was the last thing we needed, given recent events.”
The gothic church of Saint-Apollinaire, whose origins date back to the 12th century, is located in the village of Meximieux, in the department of Ain, France.
In a Facebook post, the parish priest, Father Sylvain, thanked local firefighters, who managed to put out the blaze on Monday afternoon. He also noted that police have arrested the perpetrators of the crime but does not go into detail regarding their number or the motivation behind their action.
“It is our faith that is violated and it is our community that they wanted to strike,” the priest said.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2020

To the Bishops of America


By David Martin

In the wake of the Coronavirus scare, we are seeing an escalating ban on Communion on the tongue, the suspension of Masses, and the closing of our Churches. In all honesty, is turning our back on divine help the answer in a crisis situation? Can you not see that political fear mongers are using the bishops to try to shut down the Church?  

The truth is that there exists no pandemic here at home. Some 45,000 people die from the flu each year in America, this having been the case for the past several years, yet there was never a pandemic crisis, and now a mere 101 deaths from Coronavirus in America suddenly has areas on lockdown, with flights cancelled, important events postponed, and schools and churches closed.

This corona-phobia crisis was sprung on us by the global elite to tank the market and restrict our mobility as citizens and Christians, and now we see people hallucinating and scurrying about out of fear, thanks to the satanically controlled media that is working overtime to advance this scare crusade through our channels of communication.

The worst of it is that these secular powers are seeing this as a means of controlling and closing down our Church and they are banking on you to execute this for them, knowing it could turn their scare tactic into the real thing. Hence we ask that you not buckle under pressure but that you stand firm as true shepherds and call the shots as to what or what will not be done in the Church in response to Coronavirus.

For the leaders of the Church Militant are called to stand against the forces of Socialism and U.N. Globalism and not allow these pestilent forces to exert the least influence in the Church. For what they promote is a virus of disinformation dubbed by St. Paul "the operation of error, to believe lying." (2 Thess. 2:10)

The coronavirus exists but it’s not the pandemic they’re making it to be – yet. Coronavirus was cultured by globalists so they could use it as a bio-weapon to instill fear and put us on lockdown, so we ask that you repel this negative influence and not move forward with any decision to suspend Masses or close Churches.

The Adversary Fears the Mass

The fatuity of suspending Masses is that it short-changes the faithful of needed grace just when they need it most. The infernal enemy fears the continuance of Holy Mass more than anything else since he knows this will dispel his fear crusade and thwart subsequent plans he has to turn this into an all-out epidemic.

Until now, the adversary has sought to move forward with his plan but couldn’t do so until the Mass was hoisted out of the way, but now the bishops are opening the way for him to shift gears into part-II of this plan. Is this the time to cast aside the only Medicine we have that will prevent this gruesome outbreak?

During pandemics of history like the Black Plague or Spanish Flu, the Church had recourse to God and would carry the Blessed Sacrament through the streets imploring God's help, and God heard their prayers and shielded many from sickness. 

Our only recourse during temptation or crisis is to likewise turn to God with trust, for we will certainly forfeit divine protection if we close the Church and turn to the fearful ways of man.

Communion in the Hand Spiking the Plague

I might add that if your objective is to not contribute to the spread of COVID-19, you should ban Communion in the hand, since this is the very thing that spreads virus, at least according to the experts. Before Mass, parishioners put their hands on handrails, faucets, toilet bowls, and wipe their kids' running nose, and then have the Host placed in their infected hands so they can put the contaminated Host in their mouth.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued an excellent statement on this, in which he also points out that there is no historical record of Communion on the tongue having assisted in the spread of any contagious disease. We urge you to consult his statement as it will convince you that Communion in the hand will most certainly enhance the spread of Coronavirus.

Especially, we urge you to recognize the God-given power you have to make a difference in this crisis. If the American bishops agree with one mind to keep the churches open, to continue the celebration of Mass, and to ban the practice of Communion in the hand, they will foil this sinister plan to enslave America and make her sick. You have push-button power to make the difference, so please use it, remembering the admonition of Christ: “Unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required.” (Luke 12:48)

Sincerely in Christ and His Holy Mother,

David Martin
www.smwa.org





Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Corona is the Plague Saint

In Anzù, Northern Italy, the hotbed of the coronavirus in Europe, is a basilica where the relics of Saint Victor and Saint Corona are being preserved since the 9th century.
Saint Corona was only fifteen when she professed her Christian Faith during the persecution of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius around 165.
Corona was arrested and tied by her feet to the tops of two palm trees which were bent to the ground. When the palms were let loose she was torn apart. According to the Roman Martyrology, this happened in Syria.

Saint Corona is especially venerated in Austria and Bavaria as the Patron Saint against epidemics.
Her feast day is May 14.
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