Apr 292010
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Also known as
- Agrippina of Mineo
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Born to the imperial Roman nobility. Consecrated virgin, the closest thing at that time to a nun. Tortured and martyred during the persecutions of Valerian.
Born
- imperial Roman citizen
- beheaded or scourged to death (records vary) c.262 in Rome, Italy
- body taken to Mineo, Sicily by three women
- her tomb became known as a place of cures and miracles which led to her patronage against several things
- some relics now in Constantinople
- against bacterial diseases
- against bacterial infections
- against evil spirits
- against leprosy
- against storms
- Mineo, Italy
- safety from storms
- crowned woman holding a cross and a small tower
- crowned woman holding a cross and a small tower that sits on a book
- crowned woman holding a palm of martyrdom
Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Dictionary of Saints, by John Delaney
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
- Santini Imagini
- Wikipedia
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