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

[Smith CTR Jeffrey C]

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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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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