Matrona (saint)

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Matrona was the name of several early Christian martyrs and an abbess , some of whom are poorly attested , who are venerated as saints in the Catholic and Orthodox churches .

The Stadlersche Complete Holy lexicon as called 25 Holy named Matrona , which may be because, as Stadler noted at one point, the word Matrona was appellatively to understand, that is, are not matters of Stadler's view, according to the Name of an individual, but rather the name Matrona , i.e. the legally wedded wife of a Roman citizen.

The following saints were named Matrona, sorted according to their memorial days in the church year :

  • Martyr in Carthage (February 11th)
  • Martyr in Nicomedia (February 22)
  • Martyr venerated in Barcelona (March 15)
  • Martyr in Thessalonica , slave of a Plautilla or Pautilla and killed by the latter because of her faith (March 15 or 14 and 27 and September 7)
  • Martyr, venerated in Capua , possibly died there (March 15 or 25)
  • Martyr in Amisus in Paphlagonia (March 20)
  • Martyr in Milan (May 10)
  • Martyr in Byzantium around the year 303 (May 10th)
  • Martyr in Africa (May 10)
  • Martyr from Tarsus (May 10th or 20th)
  • Martyr from Ancyra in Galatia (May 18)
  • 2 marty women from the Society of St. Lucia of Thessalonica (June 1st)
  • 2 martyrs in Rome from the company of St. Secundus (June 2nd)
  • Martyr in Rome (June 3rd)
  • Martyr in Asia (Minor) (September 12)
  • Abbess in Constantinople, born in Perge in Pamphylia in the middle of the 5th century , from St. Bassianus raised by Lodi , died in Constantinople at the end of the 5th century (November 8th or 9th)
  • Martyr in Antioch (November 16)
  • Martyr in Asia (November 17th)
  • Martyr in Nicomedia (November 17)
  • Martyr in Antioch (November 27)
  • Martyr in Africa from the Society of St. Candorius (December 5th)

The nickname Matrona means:

  • Matrona of Chios , also called Chiopolitissa , born in the 15th century in Volissos on Chios , Greek Orthodox saint (October 20)
  • Matrjona Dmitrijewna Nikonowa (1881–1952), also known as "Matrona of Moscow", saint of the Russian Orthodox Church (May 2)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Complete Lexicon of Saints, Volume 4. Augsburg 1875, p. 313.
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  18. Ekkart Sauser:  Matrona. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 812-813.
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