Saints Meuris and Thea (perhaps the same as Valentina and Thea; died ) were two Christian women who were martyred at
Gaza, Palestine.
Their feast day is 19 December.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monks of
St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921),
Butler's account
The hagiographer
Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under December 19,
Eusebius and Cureton's notes
Eusebius
Eusebius of Caesarea (; grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος ; 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus (from the grc-gre, Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου), was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian ...
, Bishop of Caesarea, records how in Gaza at this time a virgin named Valentina and her sister were tortured and then bound together and burned to death.
William Cureton
William Cureton (180817 June 1864) was an English Orientalist.
Life
He was born in Westbury, Shropshire. After being educated at the Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire and at Christ Church, Oxford, he took orders in 1832, became chapl ...
(1808–1864) in his translation of Eusebius's ''History of the Martyrs in Palestine'' notes that Eusebius gives no name for Valentina's companion, calling her only "the sister". He goes on,
Cureton goes on the explain that the compilers of the Menologium may have assumed that these two virgins, which were mentioned by Eusebius just after an account of some Egyptians, were also Egyptians and suffered the same fate.
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Ante-Nicene Christian female saints
Saints from Roman Syria
307 deaths