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According to the Passio, Sophia was a widow of Milan who gave away her possessions and moved to Rome with her daughters. Her daughters were martyred before her and she buried them at Via Appia. She died a natural death three days later while praying at the grave of her daughters. The oldest version of the Passio is BHL 2966.
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This conflicts with the much more widespread hagiographical tradition (BHL 2966, also extant in Greek, Armenian and Georgian versions) placing Sophia, the mother of Faith, Hope, and Charity, in the time of Hadrian (second century) and reporting her dying not as a martyr but mourning for her martyred daughters. [2] Her relics are said to have ...
There is a hagiographical tradition, dating to the late sixth century, [11] of a Saint Sophia and her three daughters, Saints Faith, Hope, and Charity. This has been taken as the veneration of allegorical figures from an early time, and the group of saints has become popular in Russian Orthodox iconography as such (the names of the daughters ...
A statue of Sophia, the personification of wisdom, in the Celsus Library in Ephesus, Turkey. A depiction of Saint Sophia and Her Three Daughters, Faith, Hope and Charity (icon of the Novgorod school, 16th century). Sophia Loren in 1955. Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, Sophía, "Wisdom".
On 10 May 777, Remigius brought relics of Sophia and her daughters from Rome, where they had been given to him by Pope Adrian I. He dedicated the abbey to St Sophia, and the church both to Mary and St Trophimus. Remigius died on 23 March 783 and was buried in the church. [1] [5] The church was destroyed by the Hungarians in 926.
A 1960 film adaptation was directed by Vittorio De Sica, from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini and De Sica, starring Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, and Andrea Checchi. Loren's critically acclaimed performance earned her the Academy Award for Best Actress, the first winner for a non-English language film.
Upon the creation of the Order in January 1936, Greek Princesses and their daughters were invested in order of precedence: The Queen Mother of Romania (née Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark) – Grand Mistress (1936–1947) Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark – Dame Grand Cross, Special Class