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For this day: What is the main source for the story about our mythical
"saint" Sophia?
brunner, vienna
Am Montag, 30.09.02, um 01:18 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Phyllis
Jestice:
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> Today (30. September) is the feast day of:
>
> Sophia (?) Most likely a mythical saint ("Wisdom"), according to
> legend
> Sophia was the mother of Sts. Faith, Hope, and Charity. The four of
> them
> left Milan after their husband/father died, going to Rome so that they
> could be martyred there. Emperor Hadrian obliged; the three daughters
> died
> after many tortures; Sophia was beheaded after burying her daughters.
> The
> cult of Sophia is attested in Rome from the sixth century.
>
> Ursus, Victor, and companions (d. c. 303) Ursus, Victor, and 66
> companions
> escaped the massacre of the Theban Legion. They made their way to
> Solothurn (modern Switzerland), where they were martyred.
>
> Leopardus (d. c. 362) According to legend, Leopardus was the
> chamberlain
> of Emperor Julian the Apostate. After quarreling with the emperor on
> religious issues, Leopardus was flogged and then beheaded.
>
> Jerome (d. 420) Jerome was born in Dalmatia in c. 341. He received a
> good
> education (in part at Rome), and was baptized sometime before 366. He
> decided to become a monk in Aquileia, but left for Palestine after a
> quarrel. Jerome became a hermit there for five years, devoting
> himself to
> the study of Hebrew, but eventually returned to Rome, where he became
> Pope
> Damasus' secretary. It was at this time that Jerome began his
> magnificent
> translation of the Bible, a work he continued in the East (after
> scandalous
> gossip that his female devotees were more than just friends), spending
> the
> rest of his life in Bethlehem.
>
> Honorius (d. 653) Honorius arrived in England in 601, part of the
> second
> installment of Roman missionaries sent to Kent., He became archbishop
> of
> Canterbury in 627, and spent the rest of his life consolidating the
> work of
> conversion, among other activities sending missionaries to East Anglia.
>
> Tancred, Torthred, and Tova (d. 870) These two men and a woman were
> hermits of Thorney (Cambridgeshire), and were killed by Danes in 870.
>
> Dr. Phyllis G. Jestice
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