February 12 - Saint Eulalia - Virgin Martyr - 304 - Barcelona Spain

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St. Eulalia - February 12: From the Life and Revelations of Anna Katharina Emmerick, Vol. 2, pp. 463-4
ST. EULALIA . Among Sister Emmerich's relics were two teeth marked St. Eulalia. After some time, she said: "Only one of these teeth belongs to the holy virgin-martyr Eulalia of Barcelona. The other belongs to a priest who r~ceivedHoly Orders at an advanced age, and whom I have seen journeying around helping widows and orphans. St. Eulalia's tooth was drawn about six months before her martyrdom. I saw the whole operation. The tooth caused her much suffering and she had it extracted at a young friend's house because her mother, through excessive tenderness, could not endure that it should be done at hOlne. The old Inan who drew the tooth was a Christian. lie sat on a low stool, Eulalia before him on the floor, her back to him. She rested her back against him and he quickly drew the tooth with an in strument which fitted closely around it. -The instrument had a transverse piece to the haft. When the tooth came out, he held it up in the pincers before the two girls, who both began to laugh. Eulalia's friend begged her to make her a present of it, which she readily did. All Eulalia's companions loved her and, after her martyr don}, the tooth became a Inore precious object, a sacred relic to the possessor. It passed successively into the hands of two other females. I~ater on, I saw it in a church enclosed in a silver box shaped like a little censer. It hung before a picture of St. Apollonia. In this picture Apollonia was represented not as old, but young with pin cers in her hand and a pointed cap on her head. Then I saw that, when this churoh had been despoiled of its silver, the tooth fell into the possession of a pious maiden Sister Emmerich had frequently felt and referred to the presence of this relic, say tnJ{ : .. There must be a St. Oulalia in my church! She belongs to Barcelona.'· She bad seen tll~ na.lne in v1s1on in sma.ll Roman letters, and had mistaken C tor E. 464 Life of far away from Eulalia's native land. A little piece of one of the roots llad been broken off, which I also saw preserved as a relic, but I cannot llarne the place. The tooth shines, but not with the glor}T of Inartyred bones. It shines by reason of Eulalia'" innocence and the ardent desire to die for Jesus \vllieh even then anilnated her; and also on ac count of the intense pain she endured so patiently fronl it. I do not see the Lones that the saints lost before Inartyrdom shining with the colors of the glory that distinguishes their other relics. 1"0 the light of this tooth wa~ wanting the martyrdorn of the ,vhole person. Eulalia's parents were very distinguished people. They lived in u large house surrounded by olive-trees and others with )~ellow fruits. They were Christians, but not very zealous ones; they allowed nothing- of their faith to be rClnarkcd in them. Eulalia \vas intirnate ,vith a female older than herself, a zealous Christian, who lived not far fronl Eulalia's honle in wllich she ,vas often elnployed to do great pieces of ernbroid ery. I saw her and }~ulalia making church-vestments secretly by night, fastening in round-stitch figures on cloth. They used a lanlp with a tranSp8rent shade; it gave a very clear light. I used to see Eulalia retired in her own eham ber, praying before a simple cross whi~h she had cut out of box wood. She was consumed \vith a desire to confess Jesus openly, for he often showed her in vision the nlurtyr's crown. I saw her walking with other nlaidens and express ing to them the longings which she dared not utter in her fatller's house."

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