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The relics of Behnam and Sarah are kept at the Monastery of Saints Behnam and Sarah in Iraq. [20] Some relics of the saints are also contained in the Monastery of Saint Menas in Cairo. [21] As well as this, the Syriac Orthodox Church of the Forty Martyrs at Mardin in Turkey purports to contain the remains of Saint Behnam. [22]
Saint Sarah, also known as Sara-la-Kâli ("Sara the Black"; Romani: Sara e Kali), is the patron saint of the Romani people in Folk Catholicism. The center of her veneration is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer , a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue , in Southern France .
Sarah (died c. 303) is a 4th-century martyr venerated as a saint in the Coptic Orthodox Church.She is commemorated on the 25th day of Baramouda (3 May). [1]Unable to baptise her two sons in Antioch on account of the persecutions of the Emperor Diocletian, she took them by boat to Egypt.
Sarah [a] (born Sarai) [b] is a biblical matriarch, prophet, and major figure in Abrahamic religions.While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pious woman, renowned for her hospitality and beauty, the wife and half-sister [1] of Abraham, and the mother of Isaac.
The Orthodox Church does not require the manifestation of miracles, as it does in Roman Catholicism; what is required is evidence of a virtuous life and prior local veneration of the saint. [ 1 ] Because the Church shows no true distinction between the living and the dead, as the saints are considered to be alive in heaven , saints are referred ...
Leaf from a vellum manuscript of Tobit, c. 1240 Rembrandt: Tobit Accusing Anna of Stealing the Kid (1626). The Book of Tobit (/ ˈ t oʊ b ɪ t /) [a] [b] is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites). [1]
Sarah, the nun of Upper Egypt; Sarah, one of the Desert Mother; Sarah and her two Sons, martyr; Sarapamon, archpriest of the Monastery St. John the Dwarf; Sarapamon, bishop of Niku; Sarapamon, the veiled, bishop of El-Monufia; Savories; Serapion, bishop of Thmuis, disciple of St. Anthony the Great and St. Athanasius the Apostolic; Serapion, the ...
Sarah is said to have dwelt in a monastic cell near a large river, likely the Nile, at which she would never look. Her sayings attest that this saint spent her life battling a demon that tempted her to fornication. Records indicate that Sarah lived near Skete in the early to mid-5th century. [3]