18 events with tag "Fourteen Holy Helpers"
118
ID: 4160
St. Eustace (Placidus) martyred with family - Roman general, converted after seeing crucifix between stag's antlers, roasted in bronze bull
ID: 4160
140
ID: 4159
St. Achatius martyred with 10,000 soldiers - Roman centurion, entire legion converted and martyred on Mount Ararat
ID: 4159
235
ID: 4148
St. Barbara martyred by her father Dioscorus - locked in tower, converted to Christianity, beheaded by father who was struck by lightning
ID: 4148
250
ID: 4149
St. Christopher martyred in Lycia - giant who carried travelers across river, converted after carrying Christ child, beheaded under Decius
ID: 4149
258
ID: 4150
St. Denis (Dionysius) of Paris martyred - first bishop of Paris, beheaded at Montmartre, carried head 6 miles while preaching
ID: 4150
286
ID: 4151
St. Pantaleon martyred in Nicomedia - physician who treated poor for free, survived six execution attempts before beheading
ID: 4151
303
ID: 4152
St. Vitus martyred at age 12 - Sicilian boy tortured with his tutor and nurse, thrown to lions who refused to attack, boiled in oil
ID: 4152
303
ID: 4153
St. Erasmus (Elmo) martyred - bishop of Formia, intestines wound out on windlass, patron of sailors
ID: 4153
303
ID: 4154
St. George martyred at Lydda - Roman soldier who refused to sacrifice to pagan gods, survived multiple tortures, beheaded
ID: 4154
304
ID: 4155
St. Margaret of Antioch martyred - swallowed by dragon which burst open, beheaded after converting thousands
ID: 4155
304
ID: 4156
St. Cyriacus martyred in Rome - deacon who helped imprisoned Christians, tortured with boiling pitch, beheaded
ID: 4156
305
ID: 4157
St. Catherine of Alexandria martyred - learned virgin who converted 50 philosophers, broken wheel miracle, beheaded
ID: 4157
316
ID: 4158
St. Blaise martyred in Armenia - bishop and physician, lived as hermit, healed boy choking on fishbone, flesh torn with iron combs
ID: 4158
710
ID: 4162
St. Giles dies in France - hermit and abbot, only non-martyr of Fourteen Holy Helpers, patron of disabled
ID: 4162
720
ID: 4161
St. Giles born in Athens - becomes hermit in France, fed by doe's milk, wounded by arrow meant for doe
ID: 4161
1346
ID: 4163
Fourteen Holy Helpers devotion begins in Germany - response to Black Death, special intercessors against diseases
ID: 4163
1445
ID: 4164
Vierzehnheiligen vision - shepherd boy sees fourteen children who identify as Holy Helpers, basilica later built at site
ID: 4164
1743
ID: 4165
Vierzehnheiligen Basilica begun by Balthasar Neumann - masterpiece of German Baroque, shrine to Fourteen Holy Helpers
ID: 4165