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December Saints
Saint Barbara (c. 235) Saint Barbara was brought up by a pagan father, Dioscorus, who kept her secluded in a lonely tower where this very gifted woman undertook to study religion and became a Christian. When she was of an age to marry, she refused every suitor’s demands. On finding all the pagan idols he […]