Demiana
Sign in to saveSaint 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
- Saint.canonized_date
- Early 4th century
- Saint.attributes
- garments of a Christian virgin, martyr's palm, cross, with 40 other virgins
- Saint.major_shrine
- Saint Demiana's Monastery, Izbat Jimyanah (Abou Taha, Belqas, Dakahlia Governorate), Egypt
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- 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
- Primary sources
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Demiana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.