Ancient Martyrs

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St Eulalia suffers many terrible tortures bound spreadeagled on an X cross, but some of the legends say that because of her absolute refusal to renounce her faith, she was put to death in the same manner as the one she worshiped.
After spending a night in chains the soldiers came for her at dawn and informed her how she was to die, hearing this she cried out that she was proud to die this way.
She was given a simple garment and paraded through the streets, to an elevated place outside the city walls, where she was nailed to a cross and left to die

 

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Further investigation into the St Eulalia legend reveals compelling evidence that she suffered martyrdom nailed to a Roman T cross.

 

[Kuza]

St.Pelagia of Tarsus. Day Memory 04 \ 17 May. Pelagia of Tarsus - Wikipedia

 

[Kuza]

16.05.2020 - One hundred years since the canonization of Joan of Arc.

 

[Eulalia]

May 17th: Saint Restituta was said to have been born in Carthage or Teniza (presently Ras Djebel, Tunisia) and martyred under Roman Emperor Diocletian. The location and date of her martyrdom are not precisely known. A later medieval legend, recounted by Pietro Suddiacono in the 10th century states that after being horribly tortured, Restituta was placed in a blazing boat loaded with oakum and resin. Restituta was unharmed by the fire, and asked for aid from God. God sent an angel to guide her boat to the island of Aenaria (present-day Ischia), and she landed at the present-day site of San Montano. The legend further states that a local Christian woman named Lucina had dreamt of the angel and the boat. When she walked to the beach, she found the resplendent and incorrupt body of Restituta, who was now dead. Lucina gathered the population together and the saint was solemnly buried at the foot of Monte Vico in Lacco Ameno, where an early basilica was dedicated to her, and is now the site of a sanctuary dedicated to her. A church was built in her honour in Naples in the 6th century, on the site where the Cathedral now stands.

 

[Kuza]

View attachment 860648May 17th: Saint Restituta was said to have been born in Carthage or Teniza (presently Ras Djebel, Tunisia) and martyred under Roman Emperor Diocletian. The location and date of her martyrdom are not precisely known. A later medieval legend, recounted by Pietro Suddiacono in the 10th century states that after being horribly tortured, Restituta was placed in a blazing boat loaded with oakum and resin. Restituta was unharmed by the fire, and asked for aid from God. God sent an angel to guide her boat to the island of Aenaria (present-day Ischia), and she landed at the present-day site of San Montano. The legend further states that a local Christian woman named Lucina had dreamt of the angel and the boat. When she walked to the beach, she found the resplendent and incorrupt body of Restituta, who was now dead. Lucina gathered the population together and the saint was solemnly buried at the foot of Monte Vico in Lacco Ameno, where an early basilica was dedicated to her, and is now the site of a sanctuary dedicated to her. A church was built in her honour in Naples in the 6th century, on the site where the Cathedral now stands.

Catholic calendar?

 

[Eulalia]

Yes, though there are several Restitutas who get muddled, mostly venerated in Italy. However, Wiki says she's also in the Orthodox Kalendar.

 

[Kuza]

Yes, though there are several Restitutas who get muddled, mostly venerated in Italy. However, Wiki says she's also in the Orthodox Kalendar.

Yes. In our Eastern Church, she has a different name and a different date of remembrance.

 

[Eulalia]

Yes. In our Eastern Church, she has a different name and a different date of remembrance.

Otherwise she's just the same girl!

 

[Kuza]

Otherwise she's just the same girl!

Yes)))

 

[Kuza]

St.Irene of Magedon. Day Memory 05 \ 18 May. Great Martyr Irene - Orthodox Church in America

 

[Kuza]

Sts.Glyceria and Laodicius. Day Memory 13 \ 26 May. Saint Glyceria - Wikipedia

 

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Sts.Glyceria and Laodicius. Day Memory 13 \ 26 May. Saint Glyceria - Wikipedia

I recommend the site:
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The Crypt: list of martyrs

 

[Kuza]

I recommend the site:
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The Crypt: list of martyrs

I know. Excellent site. But there are a lot of modern works that do not relate to the topic.

 

[Kuza]

Sts.Vitus, Modestus, Crescentia. Day Memory 16 \ 29 May. Martyrs Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentia, at Lucania - Orthodox Church in America

 

[Eulalia]

Sts.Vitus,

Associated with St Vitus dance - nowadays a name for compulsive twitching and involuntary movements more properly Sydenham's chorea,
but in the past with the similar effects of ergot posoning, rabies, and other, even more mysterious, outbreaks of 'dancing mania'.



St Vitus was invoked from the early middle ages to cure such afflictions, though it's not clear why. In Italy they were believed to eb caused by the bite of a tarantula, hence the very lively and vigorous dance, tarantella.

A Strange Case of Dancing Mania Struck Germany Six Centuries Ago Today

Modern experts still don't agree on what caused plagues of compulsive dancing in the streets

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Kuza]

Joan of Arc (06.01.1412 - 30.05.1431)

 

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Joan of Arc (06.01.1412 - 30.05.1431)

This is my favorite of JoA:

 

[Eulalia]

This is my favorite of JoA:

A very clever, God's-eye view!

I just imagine a voice from Heaven saying,
"All our angels are very busy just now, please hang on and they will answer your prayer as soon as possible"
followed by painful harp twanging ...

 

[Kuza]

St.Agatha