St. Leocretia

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St. Leocretia - Virgin martyr of Spain, also listed as Lucretia. She lived in Cordoba, Spain, with her Muslim Moorish parents until her conversion. St. Eulogius sheltered her. They were both scourged and beheaded, as were a total of  forty-eight Christian martyrs living in the 9th century Muslim-ruled Al-Andalus, in what is now southern Spain.