Casilda of Toledo

Saint Casilda of Toledo (Spanish: Santa Casilda de Toledo) (died ca. 1050 AD) is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church. Her feast day is April 9.

According to her legend, St. Casilda, a daughter of a Muslim 

king of Toledo (called Almacrin or Almamun), showed special

 kindness to Christian prisoners by carrying bread hidden in

 her clothes  to feed them.Once, she was stopped by 

Muslim soldiers and asked to reveal what she was carrying

 in her skirt. When she began to show them, the bread turned

 into abouquet  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. When she was cured,

 she was baptized at Burgos (where she was later

 venerated) and lived a life of solitude and penance

 not far from the miraculous 

spring. It is said that she lived to be 100 years old.

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