Saint Glyceria
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Saint Glyceria — early Christian saint, Roman virgin.
She was forced to pay tribute to a stone statue of Jupiter
but it was destroyed while she stood before it. The virgin was imprisoned for this, then sentenced to be torn apart by wild animals. She, however, was not torn apart. Before the animals could render her any harm, Glyceria died a virgin martyr in Heraclea. Her relics reputedly poured fourth the substance known as the Oil of the Saints, and her name means "sweetness".
She is honored on May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
. She is primarily recognized as an Eastern Christian Saint, and has fallen out of popularity as a Catholic Saint.
She was forced to pay tribute to a stone statue of Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
but it was destroyed while she stood before it. The virgin was imprisoned for this, then sentenced to be torn apart by wild animals. She, however, was not torn apart. Before the animals could render her any harm, Glyceria died a virgin martyr in Heraclea. Her relics reputedly poured fourth the substance known as the Oil of the Saints, and her name means "sweetness".
She is honored on May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
May 12 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 14All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 26 by Old Calendarists-Saints:* Virgin-martyr Glyceria at Heraclea, Propontis * Martyr Laodicius, jailer of Saint Glyceria...
. She is primarily recognized as an Eastern Christian Saint, and has fallen out of popularity as a Catholic Saint.
External links
- http://saints.sqpn.com/saintg6e.htm
- http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=3578
- http://www.antiochian.org/node/18611 Ἡ Ἁγία Γλυκερία ἡ Μάρτυς. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.