Ariadne of Phrygia

Ariadne ( † about 130/140 in Phrygia ) was a slave and Christian martyr.

Ariadne, are also delivered to the name Ariane or Arianna or Maria ancilla, to have lived in the Phrygian Prymnessos as slave of a Tertillus. When she refused to go to the Nativity of the Son of its owner in a pagan temple, they had been tortured and thrown into prison, where they had left them without food. Before she was to be executed by order of the prefect, it had managed to escape. When her were tight in the mountains their pursuers on the track, they have prayed for divine intervention, whereupon it was opened and hid from the pursuers of the rock. The legendary decoration is the work of later hagiographers; the Passio based but would probably authentic interrogation protocols. The exact date of their martyrdom is uncertain; he is either placed in the time of Hadrian or Antoninus Pius.

Ariadne is venerated as a saint. Your feast day is September 18.

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