COMMEMORATED ON FEBRUARY 9
Saint Apollonia was an former virgin and deaconess of Alexandria, whose martyrdom was described by St Dionysius of Alexandria (October 5) in one of his script.Because Decius became monarch in 249, he launched the supreme injure upon Christianity up to that time, becoming the most basic monarch to run for its sickening exterminaion. St Dionysius says that the unfair treatment started at Alexandria a blind date before it began in other seats, encouraged by a sure "prophet and writer of evil," who stimulated up the populace neighboring the Christians.
Backed by the power of the construction, the pagans massacred Christians, believing that they were now their false gods by piece of legislation so. The "dull and enlarge virgin Apollonia" was under arrest and struck in the guise until all her teeth were knocked out. The mob built a fire apparent the settlement and threatened to scorch her luminous unless she rigid to venerate the idols and loss to the emperor's hurtle.
St Apollonia asked the pagans to let go of her for a result so that she may perhaps pray. As with alacrity as they did, she leaped here the give somebody their cards and was used up, sound a double apex of martyrdom and virginity. In the same way as of the breed of her torments, she is sometimes depicted with a golden tooth hanging from a necklace, or holding a tooth in a two of a kind of pincers. She is invoked by ancestors disorder from toothache.
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