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Also known as: Apolline
Memorial: 9 February
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Virgin. Deaconess. After her teeth were broken with pincers, she was given
the choice of renouncing Christ or being burned alive; she lept onto the
fire herself. Martyr.
Died: burned to death
c.249 at Alexandria, Egypt
Patronage: dentists, tooth disease, toothache
Representation: deaconess holding a set of pincers which often holds
a tooth; gilded tooth; pincers grabbing a tooth; pincers; tooth and a palm
branch; tooth; woman wearing a golden tooth on a chain
Prayers: Prayer to Practice What Jesus Taught
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