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title: SAINT APOLLONIA

subject date: 2017-01-10

caption: Saint Apollonia (? -249) Egyptian Christian virgin and martyr. He was captured, no longer young, during a popular uprising anti-Christian, beaten until they fall off and the teeth subjected to torture so blasphemed and disavowed the faith. Threatened, in front of the fire, to be burned alive, he managed to escape for a moment to his jailers and s'immolò. Her enigmatic gesture (persevering would be dead at the stake) is not generally condemned as a suicide, earning the reflections of St. Augustine that the "City of God", do not take a firm position in this regard, suggests that similar actions may have been made not to escape suffering, but in obedience to divine inspiration. Patroness of dentists, dental hygienists and dental technicians, Santa Apollonia is commemorated on February 9. colored engraving, Italy 1886

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Egitto

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

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

object name: 71397

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Africa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: III

subject epoch: Paleocristiano

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 39752

file name: FSNgilardi_71397.jpg

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