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Demiana

Saint Demiana (also spelt Dimyanah, Jimyanah and Damiana) and the 40 virgins (; also known as the Chaste Martyr Saint Demiana) was a Coptic martyr of the early fourth century.

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Saint.honorific prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Demiana
Saint.birth_date: 3rd century
Saint.death_date: beginning of 4th century
Saint.feast_day: January 21 (Tooba 13) (Martyrdom of St. Demiana and the 40 Virgins)May 20 (Pashons 12) (Consecration of St. Demiana's Big Church at her monastery)
Saint.venerated_in: Oriental Orthodox Church
Saint.image: Monastery of Demiana 0.jpg
Saint.imagesize: 199px
Saint.caption: Coptic icon of Saint Demiana the Holy Martyr
Saint.birth_place: Roman Egypt
Saint.death_place: Roman Egypt
Saint.titles: Virgin, martyr

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The story of St. Demiana
Demiana faces the Diocletian Persecutions
The tomb of St. Demiana and the 40 virgins
Restoration of St. Demiana's monastery
Founder of monasticism for Coptic Orthodox nuns
Feasts of St. Demiana and the 40 virgins
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Saint Demiana (also spelt Dimyanah, Jimyanah and Damiana) and the 40 virgins (; also known as the Chaste Martyr Saint Demiana) was a Coptic martyr of the early fourth century.

==The story of St. Demiana== Near the end of the third century, there lived a Christian named Mark. He was the governor of el-Borollos (on the northern shore of the Lake Burullus, at or near today's Burj/Burg Al-Burullus, or somewhere between this town and Baltim), el-Zaafaran (or Za'faran - today Izbat Jimyanah, the village of St Demiana's monastery, or perhaps the nearby town of El Hamool), and the 'Wadi al-Saysaban' (possibly the region around the Sebennytic branch of the Nile in the Delta, that the later Arabic-speaking scribes might have assimilated to 'sesban/saisaban', a plant that grows there). Mark had an only child named Demiana, and her father loved her dearly. When Demiana was still a young child, her mother died, and her father did his utmost to raise her a virtuous Christian.