Reply-To: | | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 7 Sep 1999 17:00:05 +0100 (BST)604_US-ASCII Today, 7 September, is the feast of ...
* Regina or Reine, virgin and martyr (date unknown) - native of Alise (Bourgogne), she refused a marriage offer from the local Roman prefect; as she was about to be beheaded, a shining dove was seen hovering above her head
Last year Elena Lemeneva added: In my MA thesis I tried to find the earliest mention of this dove-story. What I found was the "Passio S. Reginae Virg. Mart." in the AASS Boll. 7 Sept. III, 39 - 40: [After tortures and last prayer] Et postquam oravit, miserunt illam in vas illud [...]51_7Sep199917:00:05+0100(BST)[log in to unmask] |