Faustina (Fausta)
Young Roman baby, daughter of Valeria, healed by Jesus.
A little daughter a few months old, pale. She has a fatal diphtheria and is about to die. Jesus takes the little one who has small convulsive movements in her waxy little hands with already purple nails. He lifts her up. Her little head hangs limply backward. Jesus wets his right index finger with saliva and puts it into the little gasping mouth, pushing it in deeply.
The little girl struggles and becomes even blacker. The mother cries: "No! No!" and seems to twist under a stabbing pain. People hold their breath. But Jesus' finger comes out with a mass of purulent membranes. The little girl no longer struggles and after shedding a few tears, calms down with an innocent smile, waving her little hands and moving her lips like a bird chirping while flapping its wings, waiting for the feeding. "Take her, Woman. Give her the milk. She is healed."[1]
The little girl, who can be at most three years old, wears a small white wool garment and a white cape too, with a hood. But the hood has slipped back from her delicate light chestnut curls, because the little girl looks at the Woman by raising her little face which emerges from the flowers she tightly holds in her arms. Splendid flowers that can only be found in these countries during cold December: flesh-colored roses mixed with delicate white flowers I do not know. Jesus has barely set foot on the terrace when he hears greeted by the small voice of the child running to meet him, saying: "Ave, Domine Jesu!"[2]
Apostolic Journey
Following the example of her mother, she will become "wise" in the Christian faith.[3]
Her Name
Name of Latin origin: favorable.
Where is she mentioned in the work?
EMV 155 EMV 158 EMV 167 EMV 193 EMV 531 EMV 583
Learn more about this character
Saint Anastasia, martyred under Nero in 68, would be the daughter of Fausta (Faustina), a Christian and a Roman pagan. The chronology would allow extrapolation on the prediction of Jesus to Valeria: "You and your daughter will become wise in the faith that will bear my Name," but this is only conjecture absent interference with Saint Anastasia, martyred under Diocletian (3rd century).