06 Works, Today, March 13th, is Saint Christina of Tyre’s Day, With Footnotes — #71

Henry Zaidan
1 min readMar 13, 2020

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Santa Christina of Tyre

Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century…

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Henry Zaidan
Henry Zaidan

Written by Henry Zaidan

In my Blog is an Online collection of significant paintings from the 1st century to today; complete with art-history and artist bibliographies.

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