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القديسة برباره
كانت برباره فتاة جميلة تسكن في مدينة نيقوميديا في آسيا الصغرى
( تركيا ). كان أبوها وثنياً متزمتاً، فأمر بالإغلاق عليها في برج
عال كي يبعد عنها الخطاب. لكنها اعتنقت المسيحية بالسر. أمر والدها
أن يبنى لها حمام خاص كيلا تستخدم الحمامات العامة. كان تصميم
الحمام في الأصل يحوي نافذتين، لكن برباره أمرت بفتح نافذة ثالثة
خفية عن والدها على اسم الثالوث القدوس. عندما رأى والدها هذا
التغيير في التصميم ، اكتشف أنها اعتنقت المسيحية فأمر بتقديمها
إلى القاضي الروماني أثناء محاكمة المسيحيين. أمر هذا الأخير بقطع
رأسها على أن يقوم الوالد بهذا الفعل. قام أبوها بقطع رأسها لكن
العقاب الإلهي صعقه بالبرق.
استشهدت الفتاة جوليانا من نيقوميديا مع بربارة وتم تكريسهما
قديستين.
تم نقل جثمان بربارة من استانبول إلى دير القديس ميخائيل ذي القبة
المذهبة في كييف وبقي هناك حتى 1930 حيث نقل إلى الكنيسة
الأرثوذكسية الشرقية في المدينة نفسها.
كان ارتباطها بالبرق سبب طلب شفاعتها ضد البرق والنار.
يحتفل بعيدها في 4 كانون الأول من كل عام.
"ماتت أثناء حكم الأمبراطور الروماني ماكسيميان في أواخر القرن
الثالث الميلادي . وبسب موت والدها في صاعقة , تتم الصلاة إليها
للحماية من العواصف."
المرسل: الإستاذ رزق الله بطرس
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Her
story
Her story says that Barbara was a beautiful girl who dwelt in
the city of Nicomedia in Asia Minor. Dioscurus, her cruel pagan
father, had her shut in a tower in order to preserve her from
suitors. She nevertheless secretly converted to Christianity.
Her father commanded that she be built a bath-house, so that she
would not have to use the public baths. The design for the
bath-house originally had two windows, but Barbara had a third
installed to commemorate the Trinity. Her father, seeing this
change, discovered that she was a Christian. He had her taken to
a Roman imperial magistrate during a persecution of Christians,
who ordered her to be beheaded, and directed that her father
carry out the sentence himself. He did so, but, according to the
story, was struck dead by lightning in divine retribution.
Juliana of Nicomedia suffered the death of a martyr along with
Barbara and was likewise sainted.
Her
memory
St.
Barbara was formerly one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Her
association with lightning caused her to be invoked against
lightning and fire; by association, she also became the patron
of artillery and mining. Her feast was formerly celebrated on
December 4; in the 1969 reform of the Roman Catholic liturgy her
public cultus was suppressed to a purely local celebration, and
her name was dropped from the litany of saints.
In the 12th century, the relics of St. Barbara were brought from
Constantinople to the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery in
Kiev, where they were kept until the 1930s, when they were
transferred to St. Vladimir's Cathedral in the same city. Her
veneration in the Eastern Orthodox Church remains very popular
and her feast day is celebrated on December 4.
In the Spanish language, the word santabárbara means the
magazine of a ship or fortress. It was customary to have a
statue of Saint Barbara at the magazine to protect the ship or
fortress from suddenly exploding. She is the namesake of the
U.S. city of Santa Barbara, California, located north of Los
Angeles. There were many churches dedicated in her name in
Russia, including the one in Moscow next to Saint Basil's
Cathedral and in Yaroslavl.
Trivia
She is depicted in art as standing by a tower with three
windows, carrying a palm branch and a chalice; sometimes cannons
are depicted by her side.
Because of her identification with lightning and cannonry, in
Santería she is identified with the god Shango, god of lightning
and war.
Sender: Rizk alluh Betros
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