Saint Blandina the Slave
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- Memorial
- 2 June
- Profile
- Slave.
With several others, she was set upon by a pagan mob, arrested, tried and convicted of Christianity, along with a number of nonsense charges like cannibalism, during the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Martyr.
- Died
- enmeshed in a net and given to a wild bull in 177 at Lyon;
body burned and the ashes thrown in the river;
what could be recovered is in the church of Saint-Leu, Amiens, France
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Patronage
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falsely accused people
girls
torture victims
- Representation
- bull
- Additional Information
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New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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