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Christina of Bolsena

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284: 269: 391: 330:, Saint Christina, Virgin and Martyr. This virgin, believing in Christ, when had broken the gold and silver idols of her father, and had distributed their fragments to the poor, she was torn to pieces by the order of the same father with lashes, and was tortured with other tortures, and thrown into the lake with a great weight of stone, but was saved by an angel. Then, under another judge, her father's successor, she constantly endured more severe tortures; lastly … behind the burning furnace, where she remained unharmed for five days, after the serpents had been overcome by the power of Christ, she completed the course of her martyrdom … being pierced with arrows. 46: 691: 3299: 3311: 303:
Urbanus had his daughter tortured because of her faith, but God thwarted his efforts. The nature of her torture varies with each source, and can include iron hooks, grilling by fire, placement in a furnace, torture on the wheel, assault by snakes, assailment by arrows, and other assorted methods, all
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She was born into a rich family, and her father was governor of Tyre. By the age of 11, the girl was exceptionally beautiful, and many wanted to marry her. Christina's father, however, envisioned that his daughter should become a pagan priestess. To this end, he placed her in a special dwelling where
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According to some accounts, Christina was once visited by an angel, who instructed her in the Christian religion. The angel then called her a bride of Christ and told her about her future suffering. Christina then smashed all the idols in her room and threw the pieces out the window. On visiting his
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in which were the remains of an early Christian church and the tomb of a female martyr. Inscriptions at the site confirmed the martyr had a name like "Christina", and that the local community was already venerating her as a
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omitted her from that calendar, "because nothing is known of this virgin and martyr apart from her name and her burial at Bolsena", but not from the Martyrology, the official list of recognized saints.
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Christina is an early virgin Christian martyr. By the ninth century, an account of her martyrdom was composed, which developed many variants. According to these, she was born either in
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daughter, Christina's father, Urbanus, asked her where all the idols had disappeared. Christina was silent, but upon summoning the two servants, Urbanus learned the truth from them.
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of the third century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed over her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century.
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of which she survives. After her father's death, his successor Dion continued to torture her. Christina is eventually beheaded.
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by the end of the fourth century. Some corroborating evidence is also provided by a sixth-century mosaic in the
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Official website of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines
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Contrary to local belief, Saint Christina of Bolsena is not the individual whose relics are enshrined in the
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The existence of Christina is poorly attested. Some versions of her legend place her in
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Saint Christina giving her father's idols of gold to the poor, 17th-century, in the
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Emblems of Saints: By which They are Distinguished in Works of Art
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of virgins, one of which is a saint named Christina wearing a
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Index

Saint Christina of Bolsena

Virgin
martyr
Tyre
Lebanon
Bolsena
Lazio
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Canonized
Pre-Congregation
shrine
Basilica of Santa Cristina, Bolsena
Feast
Attributes
Eastern Orthodox Church
virgin martyr
Tyre
Phoenicia
Bolsena
Etruscan
catacombs
saint
Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo
Ravenna
procession
martyr's crown
Tyre
Persia

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