St. Glyceria, Y

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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May 13 · Martyr

St. Glyceria

St. Glyceria, Y

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

May 13
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

May 13
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Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on May 13 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Commemorated on this day by the Greeks, especially at Jerusalem, also in the Arabic Egyptian Martyrology, the Menology of the Emperor Basil, the Mensea, and the Modem Roman Martyrology. Authority: — The Greek Acts, not trustworthy.] |LYCERIA was a maiden of Trajanopolis, in Thrace, who refused to obey the edict of the emperor, and sacrifice to the idols. She was cruelly tortured by order of the governor Sabinus, being suspended by her hair and beaten. She was taken to Heraclea, where she was executed.

Feast days

Feast: May 13

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Sources & notes

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Credits

Image: Saint Glikeriya.jpg · AnonymousUnknown author · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: AnonymousUnknown author, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.