Crescentia (martyr)
Crescentia († 304 in Lucania ) was a saint and Christian martyr .
The name Crescentia means growth in Latin .
Life
The legendary tradition of Crescentia was the nurse of St. Vitus (Veit). Together with him and his tutor Modestus , her future husband, she fled to Lucania during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Diocletian . There she was captured and thrown into boiling oil. However, an angel saved her and carried her home. It was there that the couple died together.
The earliest evidence of the veneration of St. Crescentia contains the "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" (ED. De Rossi-Duchesne, 78: "In Sicilia, in Viti, in Modesti et in Crescentiae").
iconography
From the 6th and 7th centuries the pictorial representation of the martyrdom of the saints spread , enriched with motifs from other legends, especially from the legend of Poitus , and embellished with fantastic miracle reports of no historical value.
Remembrance day
literature
- Franz Stentrup: Historia translationis S. Viti . Aschendorf Verlag, Münster 1906 (also dissertation, University of Münster 1906).
- Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina , Vol. 2, 1257-1259; Supplementum (2nd ED.), Pp. 308-309.
- Leg Net: History, Adoration, and Pictorial Representations . In: Association for friends of antiquity in the Rhineland: year books , vol. 43 (1867), pp. 152-183.
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| SURNAME | Crescentia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Holy and Christian martyr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 304 |
| Place of death | Lucania |