08 works, Today, September 16th, is Martyr Euphemia the Goth’s day, her story illustrated #258
1 min readSep 17, 2020
Saint Euphemia, c. 1454
Tempera on canvas
190 × 95 cm (74.8 × 37.4 in)
National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
The Holy Great Martyr Euphemia the All-Praised was the daughter of Christians, the senator Philophronos and Theodosia. She suffered for Christ in the year 304 in the city of Chalcedon, on the banks of the Bosphorus opposite Constantinople…