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Following the Arab conquest of northern Africa, the Catholic Church was largely absent from the continent before modern times, although the Coptic, and later Ethiopic, Orthodox Churches remained. The following are some of the notable saints from the first to seventh centuries, though it is a very incomplete list.
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
On 1 October 2000, she was canonized as Saint Josephine Bakhita. She is venerated as a modern African saint, and as a statement against the brutal history of slavery. She is regarded as the patron saint of both the country [26] and the Catholic Church in Sudan. Caritas Bakhita House in London, which provides accommodation and support for women ...
Ephigenia of Ethiopia or Iphigenia of Ethiopia (Spanish: Efigenia; Portuguese: Ifigénia/Ifigênia; French: Iphigénie; Greek: Ἰφιγένεια), also called Iphigenia of Abyssinia, [6] [note 2] is a Western folk saint whose life is told in the Golden Legend [8] as a virgin converted to Christianity and then consecrated to God by Matthew the Apostle, who was spreading the Gospel to the ...
2 Africa. 3 Asia. 4 America. 5 Oceania. 6 References. 7 See also. Toggle the table of contents. Patron saints of ethnic groups. 3 languages.
While Catholicism reached northern Africa during Roman times, the Roman borders did not exactly match modern ones. Some saints, particularly of Berber origin, may have been more closely associated with parts of modern Tunisia or Libya. This is a partial list of early saints certainly or probably associated with modern Algeria.
Following the Arab conquest of northern Africa, the Catholic Church was largely absent from the continent before modern times, although the Coptic, and later Ethiopic, Orthodox Churches remained. The following are some of the notable saints from the first to seventh centuries, though it is a very incomplete list.
Saint Victoria (died 304 AD) is venerated as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. It states that she was of the North African nobility and refused an arranged marriage (a story told also of another Saint Victoria). On her wedding day, she leaped from a window in her parents' house. Arrested for her faith, Victoria argued with the judge at ...