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Saint Blandina the Slave

detail of an illustration by Jan Luyken of the martyrdom of Saint Blandina from the book The Martyrs Mirror, 1685 edition; swiped from Wikimedia Commons Also known as

Blandina of Lyon

2 June

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Slave. With several others, she was set upon by a pagan mob, arrested, tried and convicted of the crime of Christianity, along with a number of nonsense charges like cannibalism, during the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. One of the Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne.

enmeshed in a net and given to a wild bull in 177 at Lyon (in modern France)
body burned and the ashes thrown in the river
what could be recovered is in the church of Saint-Leu, Amiens, France

Pre-Congregation

Representation

bull

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Catholic Encyclopedia
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
New Catholic Dictionary
Saints of the Day, by Katherine Rabenstein
Virgin Saints and Martyrs, by Sabine Baring-Gould

books
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

images
- Wikimedia Commons

sitios en español
- Martirologio Romano, 2001 edición

fonti in italiano
- Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Saint Blandina the Slave“. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 June 2020. Web. 28 September 2020. <>