Name
Christina, martyr of Tyre
Saint ID
S00907
Number in BH
BHG 302; BHL 1748-1758
Reported Death Not Before
200
Reported Death Not After
300
Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Virgins, Converts, Aristocrats
| ID | Title | E01764 | Greek inscription with the petition of a presbyter, asking the emperor Tiberius II to grant boundary stones, marking the area of asylum of an oratory (eukterios oikos) possibly dedicated to a female martyr. Provenance: probably the village of 'Chedara' in the Roman province of Phoenicia (near Tyre). Dated 578-582. | E02090 | The Latin Martyrdom of *Christina (martyr of Tyre, and also of Bolsena, S00907), based probably on a Greek text, narrates, in several versions all containing the same broad narrative, Christina’s refusal to sacrifice to pagan gods, her baptism, her trial presided over by three successive judges, and her death, killed by blows to her heart and side. The location of the martyrdom and burial of Christina varies: most texts situate it in Tyre (Syria), while some place it in Bolsena (central Italy). Written, in some versions presumably in Bolsena, before the late 7th c. | E03806 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 20 July *Thomas (the Apostle, S00199), *Elijah/Elias (Old Testament prophet, S00217), *Christina (martyr of Tyre, S00907), and of the *Archangels (S00191). | E03810 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 24 July *Sallustius (bishop of Jerusalem, ob. 494, S01497), *Christina (martyr of Tyre, S00907) and *Bartholomew (the Apostle, S00256). | E04891 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 24 July. | E06046 | Mosaics in the nave of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (northern Italy) depicting twenty-two female saints, preceded by the three Magi, processing towards the Virgin and Child, and twenty-six male saints, probably originally preceded by *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), processing towards Christ; created under Bishop Agnellus, 557/564. | E06627 | Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, names *Scholastica (nun of central Italy, ob. c. 543, S01728), *Christina (martyr of Tyre and Bolsena, S00907), and *Dorothea (virgin and martyr of Caesarea, S01898) as exemplary virgins. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686. | E07744 | A 5th century papyrus from Oxyrhynchos contains fragments from Greek martyrdom accounts of *Paphnoutios (ascetic and martyr of Egypt, S01509) and *Christina (martyr of Tyre, S00907). |
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