The Life of the Great and Holy Martyr Barbara: Commemorated on December 4

Publication Data: Seattle, WA: St. Nectarios Press, 1996
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: iv + 35
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.1 cm × 13.8 cm × 0.3 cm
Additional Information: black-and-white illustrations
ISBN: 0‒913026‒45‒X

   
by Georgia Hronas
Illustrated by Euphemia Brière

“The Holy and Great martyr Barbara lived in the beginning of the third century in the ancient city of Heliopolis (city of the sun). Heliopolis was in those days a large and important trading center near Lebanon, close to the Persian border. Today this city is called Baalbeck, after Baal, an ancient pagan god. Barbara was the daughter and only child of a wealthy nobleman named Dioscorus, who also served as Governor of Heliopolis.”
—“CHAPTER ONE”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO: Saint Barbara Becomes a Christian
CHAPTER THREE: Saint Barbara Confesses Christ
CHAPTER FOUR: Dioscorus Betrays Saint Barbara
CHAPTER FIVE: Saint Barbara in Prison
CHAPTER SIX: Saint Juliana is Tortured
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Martyrs are Beheaded
SOME CONTEMPORARY MIRACLES OF ST. BARBARA
   Saint Barbara Heals a Young Girl
   How Saint Barbara Saved the Town in Greece from a Tornado
   St. Barbara Saves a Home in New England from Fire
DISMISSAL HYMN TO ST. BARBARA, Plagal of 4th Tone
ANOTHER DISMISSAL HYMN, Fourth Tone
KONTAKION, Fourth Tone
MEGALYNARION
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