Biblical Persons Asia Minor Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara
Nicomedia (Iznik), Antioch (Antakya) and Heliopolis all claim to have
been her birth place, in the second half of the third century or early
fourth. Converted to the Christian faith at a very young age, her
father, Dioscorus, after trying hard to gain her back to the pagan
rites, denounced her to the prefect of the city and himself executed the
death sentence beheading her. The Passio Barbarae (the account of her
martyrdom) refers that her father was struck by a lightning and died on
the spot after killing his daughter. Her feast day falls on December 4.
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Constantine The Great