Santa Bárbara (municipality)
Santa Barbara or Santa Bárbara may refer to: * Saint Barbara, an early Christian saint and martyr * Santa Barbara, California, a city in the United States. Places Argentina * Santa Bárbara Department, Jujuy, Jujuy Province *Santa Bárbara, Salta Australia *Santa Barbara, Queensland, a town in the City of Gold Coast *Santa Barbara, New Farm, a heritage-listed villa in the City of Brisbane, Queensland Brazil *Santa Bárbara, Bahia * Santa Bárbara, Minas Gerais *Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo *Santa Bárbara do Leste, Minas Gerais *Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde, Minas Gerais * Santa Bárbara do Tugúrio, Minas Gerais Cape Verde *Santa Bárbara, Cape Verde Chile *Santa Bárbara, Chile Colombia *Santa Bárbara, Antioquia * Santa Bárbara, Nariño *Santa Bárbara de Pinto, Magdalena *Santa Bárbara, Santander Costa Rica *Santa Bárbara (canton) **Santa Bárbara de Heredia Cuba * La Demajagua, Isle of Youth, founded as Santa Bárbara Curaçao *Santa Barbara, Curaçao ...
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Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara ( grc, Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; cop, Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an Early Christianity, early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Heliopolis Phoenicia, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon, and recent discovered texts in the Saida early church archives suggest her maternal grandmother is a descendant from Miye ou Miye village. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings nor in the original recension of Martyrologium Hieronymianum, Saint Jerome's martyrology. Despite the legends detailing her story, the earliest references to her supposed 3rd-century life do not appear until the 7th century, and veneration of her was common, especially in the East, from the 9th century.Harry F. Williams, "Old French Lives of Saint Barbara" ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' 119.2 (16 April 1975:156–185), wit ...
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