St. Casilda of ToledoCasilda of Briviesca
Born in Toledo, Spain;
Feast day: April 9
Death: 1050
Saint Casilda was the daughter of a Moorish king of Toledo, who hated everything connected with Jesus Christ. Casilda secretly visited and fed Christian captives, which made her father angry. She escaped her father, illness, other horrors, and died as an anchorite near Briviesca in Burgos but with joy because she had been baptized
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