St. Aurelia of Strasbourg
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A princess who became a hermitess. A friend of St. Wolfgang, Aurelia spent more than half a century as a recluse in a Benedictine abbey in Salzburg, Austria.
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Reading 1, Joshua 3:7-10, 11, 13-17
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