Saint Barbara. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 4 December.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Barbara. 
   Virgin And Martyr.
   Feast Day 4 December.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Barbara Altarpiece.

Artist: Wilhelm Kalteysen (1420–1496).

Date: 1447.

Collection: National Museum in Warsaw.

Note: Painted for Saint Barbara's Church, Wrocław, Poland (today an Orthodox Church). Initially a Polyptych. The Wings were lost during World War II.

Source/Photographer: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/3gEm1sQ389cbzg

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Barbara died in Asia Minor about 235 A.D. She is included in "The Fourteen Auxiliary Saints".

Mass: Loquébar.

Combined pictures of front and back of Order of Saint Barbara Medallion,

Patron Saint of Artillerymen.

Photo: 29 December 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: User:Hardnfast.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

Saint Barbara (Greek: Αγία Βαρβάρα, Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ), Feast Day 4 December, known in The Eastern Orthodox Church as The Great Martyr Barbara, was an Early-Christian Greek Saint and Martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd-Century A.D. in Heliopolis, Syria, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon.

There is no reference to her in the authentic Early-Christian writings nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's Martyrology. Her name can be traced to the 7th-Century A.D., and Veneration of her was common, especially in The East, from the 9th-Century A.D.

Because of doubts about the historicity of her legend, she was removed from The General Roman Calendar in The 1969 Revision, though not from The Catholic Church's List of Saints.

Saint Barbara is often portrayed with miniature Chains and a Tower. As one of The Fourteen Holy Helpers, Barbara continues to be a popular Saint in modern times, perhaps best known as The Patron Saint of Armourers, Artillerymen, Military Engineers, Miners, and others who work with Explosives because of her old legend's association with Lightning, and also of Mathematicians. Many of the thirteen Miracles in a 15th-Century French version of her story turn on the security she offered, that her devotees would not die without making Confession and receiving Extreme Unction.