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Barbara (ST.). Virgin and martyr of the third century; daughter of Dioscorus, ardent defender of paganism, who, being unable to make his daughter abandon the faith in Jesus Christ, became himself her executioner, by beheading her, at Nicomedia, about 240. F. Dec. 4th.