biography
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (?–c.200)
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| biography:
| Christian virgin martyr, the patron saint of artillerymen, probably from Nicomedia, Bithynia. According to legend, which seems to have no foundation in historic fact, she was a maiden of great beauty whose father immured her in a tower to discourage suitors. On discovering that she had become a Christian, her father beheaded her, and was instantly struck by lightning. Her emblem is a tower. Feast day 4 December. |
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