Eurosia
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Eurosia (or Orosia) is the patron saint of Jaca, a city in the province of Huesca of northeastern Spain, in the Pyrenees, the centre of her cult.
Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Eurosia
- Saint.birth_date
- 864
- Saint.death_date
- 880 AD
- Saint.titles
- Martyr
- Saint.feast_day
- 25 June
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church
- Saint.image
- Saint eurosia.jpg
- Saint.imagesize
- 250px
- Saint.caption
- Image of Saint Eurosia, whose hands have been cut off, Colle Umberto, Italy, 17th century.
- Saint.canonized_date
- Cultus confirmed in 1902
- Saint.canonized_by
- Pope Leo XIII
- Saint.major_shrine
- Jaca
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Bohemia
- Place of birth
- Duchy of Bohemia
- Place of death
- Yebra de Basa
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Image
- Saint eurosia.jpg
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- canonization status
- saint
- date of birth
- 0864-01-01
- date of death
- 0880-01-01
- Commons category
- Saint Eurosia
- feast day
- June 25
- domain of saint or deity
- Yebra de Basa
- place of burial
- Yebra de Basa
- subject has role
- martyr
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- In Spain
- Eurosia as Bohemian princess
- Veneration
- References
- External links
Eurosia (or Orosia) is the patron saint of Jaca, a city in the province of Huesca of northeastern Spain, in the Pyrenees, the centre of her cult.
==In Spain== The "Fiesta de Santa Orosia" is celebrated on 25 June. Tradition states that she was born in Bayonne (or perhaps Bohemia) and died in 880, martyred by the Moors at Jaca.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eurosia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.