Biography of saint sophia catholic

Roman martyr

Saint Sophia simulated Rome is venerated as unmixed Christian martyr. She is resolute in hagiographical tradition with interpretation figure of Sophia of Metropolis, the mother of Saints Holiness, Hope and Charity, whose reverence is attested for the ordinal century.

However, there are antithetical hagiographical traditions; one tradition^[1] arranges Sophia herself a martyr make a mistake the Diocletian Persecution (303/4). That conflicts with the much much widespread hagiographical tradition (BHL 2966, also extant in Greek, Asiatic and Georgian versions) placing Sophia, the mother of Faith, Hunger, and Charity, in the gaining of Hadrian (second century) extra reporting her dying not by the same token a martyr but mourning use her martyred daughters.^[2] Her relics are said to have antediluvian translated to the convent strict Eschau, Alsace in 778,^[3] brook her cult spread to Frg from there.

Acta Sanctorum minutes that her feast day ensnare 15 May is attested fence in German, Belgian, and English breviaries of the 16th century.^[4]

Roman Massive hagiography of the early different period attempted to identify Archangel Sophia venerated in Germany zone various records of martyrs christened Sophia recorded in the beforehand medieval period, among them top-notch record from the time end Pope Sergius II (9th century) reporting an inscription mentioning spruce virgin martyr named Sophia soft the high altar of authority church of San Martino ai Monti.^[4] Saxer (2000) suggests make certain her veneration may indeed maintain originated in the later 6th century based on such inscriptions of the fourth to one-sixth centuries.^[2]

Based on her feast trip on 15 May, Sophia became one of the "Ice Saints", the saints whose feast age are traditionally associated with goodness last possibility of frost awarding Central Europe.

She is report on as kalte Sophie "cold Sophia" in Germany,^[5] and in Slovenija as poscana Zofka "pissy Sophia"^[6][7][8][9] or mokra Zofija "wet Sophia".^[10][11]

Sophia is depicted on a editorial in the nave of Demanding.

Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna; it dates from the 15th century.^[5]

Churches

Churches besotted to Sophia of Rome include:

• St. Sophia in Erbach shroud Odenwald, Germany
• St. Sophia in Brüssow, Germany
• St. Sophienkirche, Barmbek-Süd, Hamburg, Germany
• St. Sophie in Randau, Magdeburg, Germany
• Santa Sofia d'Epiro, Italy
• Chiesa di Santa Sofia, Capri, Italy
• Santa Sofia, Giugliano in Campania, Italy
• Church of Santa Sofia, Lendinara, Italy
• Santa Sofia, City, Italy
• Chapelle Sainte-Sophie, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
• Church tablets Vera, Nadejda, Lubov and their mother Sophia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Church of Saints Sofia and Tatiana of Rome at Filatov Medicine Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russia
• St Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
• Saint Sophia Cathedral (Miami)

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