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Austria

title: SAINT FLORIAN

subject date: 2003-07-17

caption: Saint FLORIAN of Lorch (? – 4 May 304) Officer of the Roman army in Noricum (now Austria). Discharged as a veteran, he was given a post in the city of Cetium. When the persecution of Christians broke out, he was arrested, tortured and condemned to death: drowned with a stone around his neck in the river. He is invoked against floods, burns and fires. He is the patron saint of Austria, Poland, firefighters, chimney sweeps and blacksmiths. Feast day 4 May. Devotional chromolithographic image, Austria 19th century.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Austria

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 51847

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: IV

subject epoch: Paleocristiano

technique: Cromolitografia

id: 27107

file name: FSNgilardi_51847.jpg

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