Saint Barbara (Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; Church Slavonic: Великомученица Варва́ра Илиопольская; Arabic: القديسة الشهيدة بربارة)...
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Artillery. The award is named for Saint Barbara, the patron saint of artillerymen. The Feast Day of Saint Barbara falls on December 4 and is traditionally...
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Saint Barbara was an early Christian saint and martyr. Saint Barbara may also refer to: Saint Barbara (The Cloisters), sculpture statuette in limewood...
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The Saint Barbara Altarpiece may refer to: Saint Barbara Altarpiece (Master Francke), c. 1410 Altarpiece of Saint Barbara (Pérez), c. 1410–1425 Polyptych...
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Santa Barbara or Santa Bárbara in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Santa Barbara or Santa Bárbara may refer to: Saint Barbara, an early Christian saint and...
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Eid il-Burbara (redirect from Saint Barbara Day)
Eid il-Burbara or Saint Barbara's Day (Arabic: عيد البربارة), and also called the Feast of Saint Barbara, is a holiday annually celebrated on 17 December...
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Santa Bárbara (Portuguese for Saint Barbara) is a parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,275, in an...
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"stranger" or "foreign". In Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox tradition, Saint Barbara (Greek: Ἁγία Βαρβάρα) was imprisoned in a tower by her father. She was...
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Santa Barbara (Spanish: Santa Bárbara, meaning 'Saint Barbara') is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat...
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the feast day of Saint Barbara, as the tenth mission of what would later become 21 missions in Alta California. Mission Santa Barbara, like other California...
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Sainte-Barbe (redirect from Saint-Barbe)
Sainte Barbe is French for Saint Barbara. Sainte-Barbe or variations may refer to: Sainte-Barbe, Moselle, in the Moselle département Sainte-Barbe, Vosges...
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in the Azores. In addition, Saint Barbara is the patron saint of those who work with cannons and explosives. Santa Barbara was laid down on 30 December...
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The Barbara Pit massacre (Slovene: Pokol v Barbara rovu, Croatian: Pokolj u Barbarinom rovu), also known as the Huda Jama massacre, was the mass killing...
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St Barbara's Church can refer to any one of the many churches dedicated to Saint Barbara: St Barbara's Church, Ashton under Hill St Barbara's Church, Earlsdon...
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In a legend, Saint George—a soldier venerated in Christianity—defeats a dragon. The story goes that the dragon originally extorted tribute from villagers...
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syncretized with Saint George. Some yellow-edged varieties of D. trifasciata are called espada de Santa-Bárbara ("Sword of Saint Barbara") and are associated...
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Barbara of Cilli or Barbara of Celje (Hungarian: Cillei Borbála, German: Barbara von Cilli, Slovenian and Croatian: Barbara Celjska, 1392 – 11 July 1451)...
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Service men of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces - Barbara Servers the sick - Saint Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur Shepherds - Bernadette of Lourdes...
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The Polyptych of Saint Barbara (Italian: Polittico di Santa Barbara) was painted by Palma Vecchio in the early 1520s as the altarpiece for the Venetian...
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Saint Barbara is a sculpture statuette in limewood with paint, completed by an unknown, probably German, artist in Strasbourg, Alsace, in present-day...
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Dioscorus (redirect from Saint Dioscorus)
Companions (including Dioscorus), 3rd-century martyr and saint Dioscurus, father of Saint Barbara (3rd century) Dioscorus (consul 442), Roman consul in 442...
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the end of the 11th century. St. Barbara's Church stands north of the Coptic Museum and is east of the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus (Abu Serga)...
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Werl Triptych (section Right panel: Saint Barbara)
the Master of Flémalle. The right-hand wing depicts a seated, pious Saint Barbara, who is shown engrossed in her reading of a bound and gilded holy book...
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ever produced. In the New World, he is syncretized with either Saint Barbara or Saint Jerome. Ṣàngó was the third Alaafin of Oyo, following Oranmiyan...
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Portuguese throne. She was usually referred to as Bárbara or Maria Bárbara after Saint Barbara, the saint of her birthday, a name never used before among...
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Lucia of Syracuse (283–304 AD), also called Saint Lucia (Latin: Sancta Lucia) (and better known as Saint Lucy) was a Roman Christian martyr who died during...
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concepts were used in ancient Rome. Christian martyrs Agatha of Sicily and Saint Barbara both had their breasts torn off as torture before being killed. The...
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Saint Barbara is a small 1437 drawing (41.2 × 27.5 cm) on oak panel, signed and dated 1437 by the Netherlandish artist Jan van Eyck. It is unknown if...
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Sistine Madonna (redirect from Virgin Child and Saints Sixtus and Barbara)
the painting the Madonna, holding Christ Child and flanked by Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara, stands on clouds before dozens of obscured putti, while two...
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Agia Varvara (Greek: Αγία Βαρβάρα, meaning Saint Barbara) is a suburban town in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Attica, Greece and a municipality...
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