Euphemia

Euphemia of Chalcedon († September 16 at 303) was an early Christian virgin and martyr.

Life

Euphemia lived in the 3rd century under the reign of Diocletian and Maximian, and was a Roman patrician, the daughter of a senator at Constantinople Opel ( now Istanbul ) and known during the persecution of Christians openly practice their faith. It should therefore be tortured on the orders of the proconsul Priscus. According to legend, Euphemia was hung up by the hair and pressed seven days between stones. Food was refused. An angel fed them at this time, then the stones crumbled to dust, and Euphemia was free. It was cast in the Hippodrome at Constantinople Opel into a den of wild animals, but this did nothing to her. An executioner who jumped into the pit and Euphemia stabbed with a dagger, was mauled by the animals. Euphemia was buried with full honors.

Relics

In the fourth century AD a basilica was erected over the grave Euphemia at Chalcedon. To 620 AD, her relics were transferred to Constantinople Opel. Around 800 of the sarcophagus Euphemia was transferred to Rovinj in Croatia today. Relics are in the church dedicated to her in Rovinj, others in Istanbul.

In the 13th century other relics were (the head ) in the Templar Castle Athlit, where they had been " miraculously added ," perhaps during the sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade Opel. The Templars cultivated the relic with their belts to touch. 1291 the relic was brought to Cyprus in the treasure house of the Order in Nicosia and arrived after the dissolution of the Order in the possession of the Hospitallers. In 1395 they were on Rhodes, during the evacuation of the island in 1522 they came to Malta, where they were kept in a reliquary. It is believed that Napoleon's troops the reliquary and its contents in 1798 and captured the ship that transported them, fell in the Battle of the Nile in the summer of 1798.

Liturgy

Your feast day is in the Orthodox Church of September 29. Another festival is on July 24 at which they intervened on the fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon wondrously against heretics. Euphemia is the patron saint of Rovinj.

Portrait of the saint on top of the tower

Altar with Saints portrait in Rovinj

Fresco of the arrival of the sarcophagus in Rovinj.

Patrozinien

After Holy named places ( there usually also patron saint of the town ):

  • Sainte- Euphémie (Ain), commune in the department de l' Ain, Rhône -Alpes, France
  • Sainte- Euphémie -sur -Ouvèze, commune in the department de la Drôme, Rhône -Alpes, France
  • Sainte- Euphémie -sur -Rivière -du -Sud, in the district of Quebec, Canada
  • Santa Eufemia ( Juárez Celman ) municipality in the department Celman Juárez, Córdoba Province, Argentina
  • Santa Eufemia (Andalusia ), municipality in the province of Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
  • Santa Eufemia del Arroyo, municipality in the province of Castilla y Leon, Spain
  • Santa Eufemia del Barco, municipality in the province of Castilla y Leon, Spain
  • Eufémia (Leiria ), town in Portugal
  • Eufémia ( Penela ) community in Portugal
  • Eufémia ( Pinhel ) community in Portugal
  • Eufémia de Prazins, church in Guimaraes, Portugal
  • Eufémia de Calheiros, community in Ponte de Lima, Portugal
  • Eufemia a Maiella, an Italian commune in the province of Pescara
  • Eufemia d' Aspromonte, an Italian commune in the province of Reggio Calabria
  • Eufemia Lamezia, Lamezia Terme district of ( former municipality) in the Province of Catanzaro
  • Eufemia (Tricase ), part of Tricase in the province of Lecce
  • Eufemia della Fonte, the district of Brescia, in the province of Brescia
  • Gulf of Eufemia Bay in Calabria
  • Piana di Eufemia, land in Calabria
  • St. Euphemia, St. Fumia ( kroat. )

To see churches Euphemiakirche

Consecrated virgin Château Pèlerin Anniversary Integrated Authority File
319732
de