[MR] Dec. 4 is St. Barbara's feast day!

[TheWolfhou at aol.com]

Being a Barbara, since before my SCA years I have been collecting St  Barbara 
pictures. She is also often depicted on a beach or with the sea behind,  
since the tower her father built to keep her from any man and from hearing more  
about this Christ, was supposedly on a lonely shore of Southern Spain  
(according to the tales I heard while living in Spain). The tower windows are  either 
all lit, or just the top one (for the Holy Ghost that talked to her in  her 
confinement)
--Blitha of Wolfhou
 
 
In a message dated 12/4/2008 10:01:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jeffrey.c.smith.ctr at usmc.mil writes:

The  tower she is portrayed with is typically portrayed with three windows 
(Father,  Son, and H.G.).  The legend behind her is an interesting one--anyone 
with  an interest in saints' stories may want to read.  As a retired  
Artilleryman, she is near and dear to my heart.  Images of her are easy  to find on the 
internet, and one hangs in my house.

Barcsi  Janos
(mundanely a member of the Honorable Order of St Barbara since 1988)  

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[mailto:atlantia-bounces at atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Karen Setze
Sent:  Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:00
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Subject: [MR] Dec. 4 is St. Barbara's feast  day!

given the St. Barbara reliquary challenge, it seemed suitable to  note that 
today (Dec. 4) is St. Barbara's feast day. Here are some tidbits  from the 
Medieval Saints email list:

St. Barbara, one of the Fourteen  Holy Helpers Beheaded by her father c.235 
at Nicomedia during the persecution  of Maximinus of Thrace; relics at Burano, 
Italy, and Kiev, Russia Commemorated  December 4; removed from revised Roman 
calendar and cultus suppressed in 1969  

Patronage: against death by artillery, against explosions, against  fire, 
against impenitence, against lightning, against mine collapse, against  storms, 
ammunition magazines, ammunition workers, architects, armourers,  artillery, 
artillerymen, boatmen, bomb technicians, brass workers, brewers,  builders, 
carpenters, construction workers, dying people, explosives workers,  fire, fire 
prevention, firefighters, fireworks, fireworks manufacturers,  fortifications, 
founders, geologists, gravediggers, gunners, hatmakers,  hatters, lightning, 
mariners, martyrs, masons, mathematicians, military  engineers, milliners, 
miners, ordnance workers, prisoners, safety from storms,  sailors, saltpetre 
workers, smelters, stone masons, stonecutters, storms,  sudden death, Syria, tilers, 
warehouses, watermen 

In art, she is shown  as a crowned woman with a chalice; cannon; palm of 
martyrdom; princess in a  tower with either the palm of martyrdom or chalice of 
happy death; tower;  woman holding a tower or feather; woman trampling a Saracen 

Lady  Yseulte Trevelyn




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