From the city of the sun (Baalbek) the saint (Barbara)

We do not know exactly the history of the Martyrdom of St. Barbara, nor the place of her martyrdom. Some sources make it in Egypt, Rome, Italy or Asia Minor, and the stories in Lebanon are likely to be in Baalbeck. And between 235 and 313 AD.

The story passed on by the generations is that she was the daughter of a fanatical idolater with wealth, glory and pride. His name is Diosphorus. Barbara was beautiful and the bird was jealous of her father
Of the eyes, and closed them in his palace and make it all you need and what is distracted. God had chosen her, moved her heart to reflect on creation until she reached the Creator and realized the emptiness of idols and misrepresentation. And by the measure of God she met Barbara of her flesh in Christ and she believed in him and promised him to beg herself not to mock him with a terrestrial groom or impose paganism under the veil of marriage. When her father discovered that she had become a Christian, he turned his madness and handed her over to the ruler Marcianus.

Mericanus, with kindness, first tried to restore Barbara to paganism and to make his intention. And threatened and vowed not budged from her opinion, Vselmha to the torments of the time, skin and shredded iron and prison did not give the failure of a share. Then he delivered her to death. Her father, after being full of folly and rage, refused to be his own executioner, and cut off her head with a sword.

The name of the martyred Barbara, today, was associated with the name of another martyr, Eliana (Julian). This is why I did not contemplate the glorious field of glorious Martyr Barbara struggling with the skin and the various tortures. Her body was cut off with her whole body moving her heart, and she was pagan, and she came forward and confessed that she was also to Christ. The soldiers seized her and tortured her to death.

This is for St. Barbara a special honor in the East and West together. Everyone returns to her today. It has been popular since the eighth or ninth century AD

It is noteworthy that many churches were built on the name of Saint Barbara and named after several cities.

Her comrades, Patriarch Makarios the leader, recalled that her body was moved by Christian kings from Baalbek to the city of Constantinople and remained there. Then the Russians believed in Christ in a time
Byzantine Emperor Basil II (976-1025 CE). This king married his sister to Vladimir, the prince of Kiev, Basilius gave his sister the remains of St. Barbara a gift. She took her to Kiev. Patriarch Makarios says that the remains are in the monastery of St. Michael outside the city of Kiev. And that her body remains the same. Minus some members. He says he saw the remains there and rubbed them.