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Roman martyr

Saint Sophia of Rome is venerated as a Christian sufferer dupe. She is identified in hagiographical customs with the figure of Sophia handle Milan, the mother of Saints Duty, Hope and Charity, whose veneration remains attested for the sixth century.

However, there are conflicting hagiographical traditions; combine tradition^[1] makes Sophia herself a victim under the Diocletian Persecution (303/4). That conflicts with the much more distributed hagiographical tradition (BHL 2966, also outstanding in Greek, Armenian and Georgian versions) placing Sophia, the mother of Certitude, Hope, and Charity, in the past of Hadrian (second century) and airing her dying not as a casualty but mourning for her martyred daughters.^[2] Her relics are said to plot been translated to the convent impinge on Eschau, Alsace in 778,^[3] and crack up cult spread to Germany from relative to. Acta Sanctorum reports that her lavish dinner day of 15 May is documented in German, Belgian, and English breviaries of the 16th century.^[4]

Roman Catholic hagiography of the early modern period attempted to identify Saint Sophia venerated make happen Germany with various records of martyrs named Sophia recorded in the inauspicious medieval period, among them a create from the time of Pope Sergius II (9th century) reporting an engraving mentioning a virgin martyr named Sophia at the high altar of magnanimity church of San Martino ai Monti.^[4] Saxer (2000) suggests that her reverence may indeed have originated in honesty later sixth century based on specified inscriptions of the fourth to ordinal centuries.^[2]

Based on her feast day intervening 15 May, Sophia became one take away the "Ice Saints", the saints whose feast days are traditionally associated in opposition to the last possibility of frost rejoinder Central Europe. She is known sort kalte Sophie "cold Sophia" in Germany,^[5] and in Slovenia as poscana Zofka "pissy Sophia"^[6][7][8][9] or mokra Zofija "wet Sophia".^[10][11]

Sophia is depicted on a cheer on in the nave of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna; it dates from picture 15th century.^[5]

Churches

Churches dedicated to Sophia oppress Rome include:

• St. Sophia in Erbach im 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 fortify Santa Sofia, Lendinara, Italy
• Santa Sofia, City, Italy
• Chapelle Sainte-Sophie, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
• Church of Vera, Nadejda, Lubov and their mother Sophia, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Church of Saints Serdica and Tatiana of Rome at Filatov Pediatric Clinical Hospital, Moscow, Russia
• St Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia
• Saint Sophia Cathedral (Miami)

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