Holy Réparate

Sainte Réparate (in Niçois, santa Reparata ) is a holy Christian and virgin Martyr E. Sponsor Florence as well as Nice and of its diocese, she is celebrated on October 8th.

Biography

Originating in Césarée of Palestine, Réparate would have died in 250, at the 15 years age, at the time of persecutions of the Roman Emperor Dèce.

First of all, one would have tried to burn it sharp but it was saved by a convenient downpour. One then made him drink ebullient pitch, but once more she survived. Finally, she was decapitated and her body placed in a boat which one let derive on the the Mediterranean. The boat reached the coasts niçoises and was brought back on the shore by Ange S. Its remainders were buried in a vault located at the site of the current Old man-Nice before being deposited in the Holy-Réparate cathedral in 1690.

Just like Holy Tropez, holy Lazare or the Saintes Marry, Sainte Excessively pious woman and Marthe which arrived in the south of France by the Mediterranean, the worship of holy Réparate symbolizes the expansion of Christendom since the Holy Land, actually conveyed by the merchants, the soldiers or the travellers.

In the vault of the cathedral of Nice which is more especially dedicated to him, a sign precise that “one requests it for the Perseverance of the Young people in the Faith”.

To note that the Dôme of Florence was dedicated to Réparate until in 1298, as many primitive paintings attest it florentines where it is represented at the sides of the Virgin.

Attributes

Its principal attributes are the dove, sometimes outgoing of its mouth, the crown of martyrdom, a book or the banner of Resurrection.

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