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Rich in color, exquisite contemporary design. Ready to hang inside or outside Includes a prayer card of Saint Apollonia free Easel is included - available in 6" x 6" - can be an altar WE SHIP FROM THE US The Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate the feast day of St. Apollonia on February 9, & she is popularly invoked against the toothache because of the torments she had to endure. She is represented in art with pincers in which a tooth is held. Saint Apollonia is one of the two patron saints of Catania. William S. Walsh noted that, though the major part of her relics were preserved in the former church of St. Apollonia at Rome, her head at the Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, her arms at the Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, parts of her jaw in St. Basil's, & other relics are in the Jesuit church at Antwerp, in St. Augustine's at Brussels, in the Jesuit church at Mechlin, in St. Cross at Liège, in the treasury of the cathedral of Porto, & in several churches at Cologne.[5] These relics consist in some cases of a solitary tooth or a splinter of bone. in the Middle Ages, objects claimed to be her teeth were sold as toothache cures. There was a church dedicated to her in Rome, near the Basilica di Santa Maria in Trastevere, but it no longer exists. Only its little square, the Piazza Sant'Apollonia remains. One of the principal train stations of Lisbon is also named for this saint. There is a statue of Saint Apollonia in the church at Locronan, France. The island of Mauritius was originally named Santa Apolónia in her honor in 1507 by Portuguese navigators.[citation needed] A parish church in Eilendorf, a suburb of Aachen, Germany, is named in honor of Saint Apollonia. The Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University Chicago contains a stained glass window on the north wall depicting St. Apollonia.[6] The windows along this wall correspond with the colleges of the university at the time the chapel was built. The Loyola University School of Dentistry closed in 1993, but the window in the chapel remains. We have almost all the Catholic Saints, if you are looking for one in particular send me a note Saint Apollonia Patron Of Dentists & Those Afflicted With Dental Disease Tile Plaque Or Altar Ready For Hanging Interior Exterior Display
