Eulalia of Merida

Saint Eulalia, John William Waterhouse image. 1885. Tate Museum storehouse

Eulalia (Spanish: for Eulalia de Mérida, from 290 years to 304 years) of Merida is an initial Christian martyr. For the condominium era of Diocletian emperor and the マクシミアヌス emperor, I became a martyr in Eymet Rita (current Merida) of Lusitania. Become a saint of the Roman Catholicism; a holiday is December 10. The patron saint of the victim of a fugitive, the torture. A patron saint of Merida and Oviedo.

Eulalia who was 14 years old intended to give purity as a Christian from 12 years old. In about 304, she was isolated to the country by mother. This is because it was forced so that all the citizens believe in gods of Rome. Eulalia confessed that it was a Christian in the court of the governor and I insulted God and マクシミアヌス emperor of the polytheism and escaped. The nobles were going to let her become a martyr. The judge used the lipsalve and was going to use the bribe, but ended in failure. According to poet プルデンティウス of the fifth century, it is said that Eulalia said in this way.

Isis Apollo Venus nihil est,

Maximianus et ipse nihil:

illa nihil, quia factu manu;

hic, manuum quia facta colit

Isis, Apollo and the Venus fell

Nobody is in マクシミアヌス

They were not someone and were workmanship made by hand

As for him who was made by hand, the act that made him is admired

Clothes were torn off by soldiers, and she was made to encounter the torture that was fixed with a screw, and was baked with a torch and was done for burning at the stake. She breathed smoke and suffocated. Meanwhile, she continued sneering torture and spitted out a dove from a mouth. Soldiers who had finished being frightened by this escaped, and a miracle happened, and snow overturned to cover her body from neighboring eyes. Eyewitnesses were convinced of the qualification as the saint of Eulalia.

A church to enshrine her grave was built immediately. Did the successive emperors of Eulalia for 350 years and was already popular with Christians. The poetry of プルデンティウス raised her fame, and her Saint remains were scattered along the Iberian Peninsula. Bishop フィデリス rebuilt a temple of Confucius which named the name of Eulalia in about 560. Her family temple became the most popular thing for the west goat kingdom era. In about 780, a corpse was transferred to Oviedo by ass toe ria King Shiro. In 1075, a silver coffin of the given wind in Arabia was prepared by the Alfonso sixth. In 1639, she became a patron saint of Oviedo.

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