Christine de Tyr
Sainte Christine de Tyr is a holy martyrdom having lived, according to the sources, at the 3rd century or the 5th century. Its feastday is fixed at the July 24th.
His/her father, Urban, were a rich person Roman magistrate which venerated the pagan idols . It had a great number of these Statue S in Or, that his/her daughter, converted with the Christianisme, broke and gave the poor. His/her father, furious, made it whip and imprison. Vis-a-vis his refusal to give up the Christ, the father quartered Christine with iron hooks and ends up throwing it to fire. Indicator which she had survived this treatment, it if was struck that it died about it in great sufferings.
That however did not put a term at the way of cross of Christine, since a second magistrate was named. The latter exhorted it with more wisdom by pointing out its aristocratic origins to him, it what she would have answered: “Christ, that you mistakes, will deliver me your hands”. The counterpart in vain exasperated the magistrate, who locked up it in a Four during five days. The following judge locked up it in company of Serpent S poisonous: the latter were unaware of it but killed the guard. Christine brought back the guard to the life and converts it with Christianity, but its only reward was to have the cut Langue.
She finally succumbed to dead after to be bored arrows. Its relics from now on are preserved at Palermo in Sicily, whose Christine is also one of the four holy owners.
It was supposed that it had suffered in a city called Tyro, located on a island of the lake of Bolsena. It is the extremely old presence of its relics in Italy which made seek in this country a place which can correspond to the obscure indications of certain texts. In fact, the Eastern tradition makes it possible to raise certain darknesses. The East indeed honors on July 24th a martyrdom with the name of Christine who fought in Tyr, city located on an island that Alexandre the Large one transformed into peninsula. It is not necessary to think that there were two Christine de Tyr (or of Tyro).
Other holy of the name of Christine: to see Holy Christine.
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