Santa Irene
| Municipality of O Pino: Santa Irene | |||
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| Autonomous Community : | Galicia | ||
| Province : | A Coruña | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 55 ′ N , 8 ° 20 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 380 msnm | ||
| Residents : | 10 (2011) INE | ||
| Area code: | 15066011300 | ||
Santa Irene is a hamlet on the Camino de Santiago in the A Coruña province of the Autonomous Community of Galicia , administratively it is dependent on the municipality of O Pino .
The only attraction is a chapel from the 18th century, consecrated to St. Irene of Portugal . Tradition has it that the saint lived in a virgin monastery and was assassinated by the hand of a murderer whom a rejected admirer had commissioned.
literature
- Míllan Bravo Lozano: Practical pilgrim guide. The Camino de Santiago. Editorial Everest, Léon 1994, ISBN 84-241-3835-X .
- Cornelia Hoß: Irene of Portugal. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1330.
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- Irene of Portugal in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
- Population figures see INE
