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Christina of Tyre.

Virgin. Megalomartyr. Martyred at Tyre in Phoenicia. 4th cen.?

Synax.CP, July 24, par. 1 (cols. 839-40).

BHG 301y-302b; BiblSS IV 330-8; DHGE XII 774; Holweck 209; LCI V 495-6; ODS 77.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 48v. Martyrdom, stabbing with spear. Christina, stands, orant, while the executioner stabs her in the chest with a spear. (Hutter, II, p. 29, fig. 91).

Dečani. Narthex, north aisle, west wall, window embrasure. Christina?⁷² Half-figure. Inscription destroyed. (Babić et al, Dečani, no. 300, fig. T III 45a; Mijović, Menolog, fig. 50 [not identified).

⁷² Identification proposed by Babić et al, Dečani, no. 300.

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