Princes, devout Muslim, becomes Saint Casilda,

April 8th marks the feast day of Saint Casilda, patron saint of Muslim converts to Christianity; Infertile women.

St. Casilda, a daughter of a Muslim king of Toledo Spain, in the 10 century, 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 devout Muslim, but when she became ill as a young woman, she did not trust that any of the local Arab doctors could cure her. So she made a pilgrimage to the shrine of San Vicenzo in northern Iberia to partake of the healing waters of the shrine of San Vicente, near Buezo, close to Briviesca. Like so many other people who made their way there—many of them suffering from hemorrhages—Casilda sought the healing waters of the shrine. 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. Her death likely occurred around the year 1050.