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    Fathers from the 4th century. In the hagiography of Christian martyrs of the late 1st to early 4th centuries, virgin martyrs (Latin virgo et martyr, Greek παρθένος-μάρτυρας...
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  • The Virgin Martyr is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Thomas Dekker and Philip Massinger, and first published in 1622. It constitutes a...
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    Christina of Bolsena (category Virgin martyrs)
    Christine of Bolsena, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great martyr, is venerated as a virgin martyr of the third century. Archaeological...
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  • third-century virgin and martyr from Leontini, Sicily. She is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches on 2 March and in the Roman...
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    Margaret, known as Margaret of Antioch in the West, and as Saint Marina the Great Martyr (Greek: Ἁγία Μαρίνα) in the East, is celebrated as a saint on 20 July...
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  • Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr (In Spanish: Reinas) is a Spanish and British historical drama television series created by José Luis Moreno, and produced...
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    Dorothea of Caesarea (category Virgin martyrs)
    virgin martyr who was executed at Caesarea Mazaca. Evidence for her actual historical existence or acta is very sparse. She is called a martyr of the...
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    Saint Cecilia (category Virgin martyrs)
    Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the patroness...
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    304) is a virgin martyr, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, as well as the Anglican...
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    Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican...
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    Catherine of Alexandria (category Virgin martyrs)
    according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early fourth century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography...
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    Saint Lucy (category Virgin martyrs)
    Syracuse was honored in the Middle Ages and remained a well-known saint in early modern England. She is one of the best known virgin martyrs, along with Agatha...
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    and the 40 virgins (Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲇⲩⲙⲓⲁⲛⲏ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲡⲓ ϩ︤ⲙⲉ ⲉ̅ⲑ̅ⲱ̅ ⲙ︤ⲡⲁⲣⲑⲉⲛⲟⲥ; also known as the Chaste Martyr Saint Demiana) was a Coptic martyr of the early...
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    Agatha of Sicily (category Virgin martyrs)
    part of the Roman Province of Sicily, and was martyred c. 251. She is one of several virgin martyrs who are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass...
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    Saint Markella (category Virgin martyrs)
    followed. Martyr Marcella of Chios (OCA) Markella, the Virgin-martyr of Chios (GOARCH) The Holy-Female Martyr Marcella (Prologue from Ohrid) The Life of...
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    Philomena (category Virgin martyrs)
    August 304) was a virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on May 24–25, 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb bore an inscription...
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    Saint Regina (Regnia, French: Sainte Reine) (3rd century) was a virgin martyr and saint of the pre-schism Christian Church. Regina was born in Autun, France...
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  • Retrieved 2024-04-19. "42 Martyrs of Ammoria in Phrygia". www.oca.org. Retrieved 2024-07-19. "The Martyrs of Cordoba: A Lesson for the Present Day | A Russian...
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    In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. In the years of the early church, stories depict...
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  • Pelagia the Virgin (Greek: Πελαγία), also known as Pelagia of Antioch, was a Saint and virgin martyr who leapt to her death during the Diocletianic Persecution...
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    Y Z Aaron, the high priest, and brother of Moses Ababius, monk of Scetes Abadiu, bishop and martyr of Ansena Abakir, John, the 3 Virgins and their Mother...
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    Eulalia of Barcelona (category Virgin martyrs)
    13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who was martyred in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian (the Sequence of Saint...
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    Saint Bibiana (category Virgin martyrs)
    Vivian) is a Roman Virgin martyr. The earliest mention in an authentic historical authority occurs in the Liber Pontificalis, where the biography of Pope...
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    Saint Venera (category 2nd-century Christian martyrs)
    the name of a virgin martyr named Veneranda. According to de Natalibus, Veneranda was born in Gaul in the 2nd century and martyred in Rome during the...
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  • saint of the third century AD. She was executed in 250, near the beginning of Emperor Decius' violent suppression of Christians within the Roman Empire...
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    Emerentiana (category Virgin martyrs)
    Emerenziana) was a Roman virgin and martyr, who lived around the start of the 4th century. Her feast day is 23 January. According to the legend of Agnes of...
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  • alone it may refer to: Saint Ines (Agnes of Rome; c. 291 – c. 304), virginmartyr, saint Ines (Eda-Ines Etti; born 1981), Estonian singer Inés Alberdi...
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    Euphemia (category Virgin martyrs)
    Εὐφημία; 'well-spoken [of]'), known as Euphemia the All-praised in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was a virgin martyr, who died for her faith at Chalcedon in 303...
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    template of the practice of the velatio virginum going back to the Apostolic era, especially the early virgin martyrs. The consecration of virgins for nuns...
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    Pudentiana (category Virgin martyrs)
    Pudentiana is a virgin and martyr of the 2nd century who refused to worship the Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Antoninus Pius as deities. She is sometimes...
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