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Casilda of Toledo

Saint Casilda of Toledo (950–1050) is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Her feast day is 9 April.

Life
According to her legend, St. Casilda, a daughter of a Muslim king of Toledo, Yahya ibn Ismail Al-Mamun, showed great compassion for Christian prisoners by frequently smuggling bread into the prison, hidden in a basket concealed in her clothes, to feed them. Once, she was stopped by her father and his 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. == Gallery ==
Gallery
File:Fray Juan Rizi casilda.jpg|Saint Casilda, by Juan Rizi Image:CasildaBurgos.jpg|St. Casilda Apprehended with her Basket, Burgos Cathedral File:Nogales-Casilda.jpg|The Miracle of the Roses; by José Nogales Sevilla File:González Velázquez, Zacarías - The miracle of Saint Casilda - c. 1820.jpg|The miracle of St Casilda by Zacarías González Velázquez 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. == Bibliography ==
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