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Valerie of Limoges
Close-up of altar relief: St Valerie presents her own head to her confessor, St Martial. Limoges.
Venerated inCatholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrineChurch of St. Michel des Lions, Limoges
FeastDecember 9

Valerie of Limoges (also Valeria of Limoges) is a legendary Christian martyr and cephalophore, associated with the Roman period, whose cult was very important in Limousin, France, in the medieval period. She has been an important subject for Christian art since the Middle Ages and for porcelain figurines over several centuries.

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Valerie of Limoges

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Valerie of Limoges (also Valeria of Limoges) is a legendary Christian martyr and cephalophore, associated with the Roman period, whose cult was very important...

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Cephalophore

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walking with it in her hands, to the door of a local convent, before collapsing there. Similarly, Valerie of Limoges carried her severed head away to her confessor...

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Saint Martial

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Martial to Limoges. He succeeded in converting the inhabitants to Christianity, and his memory has always been venerated there. Martial died in Limoges and was...

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Saint Valerie

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Saint Valerie may refer to: Valerie of Limoges, according to legend, an associate of Saint Martial, a cephalophoric martyr Valeria of Milan, often known...

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Valeria of Milan

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sometimes misidentified as that of Valeria of Milan, but the reliquary is actually associated with Valerie of Limoges, a different saint. Cross, Crozier...

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Limoges enamel

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Catherine of Alexandria

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virgin martyrs, a group including Agnes of Rome, Margaret of Antioch, Barbara, Lucia of Syracuse, Valerie of Limoges and many others. Her power as an intercessor...

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Waddesdon Bequest

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16th-century style that was led by painted Limoges enamel, rather than the champlevé enamel for which Limoges was famous in the Romanesque period. The new...

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in Limoges, based on an earlier Romano-German ordo. In the early thirteenth century a commentary was added to this ordo, which emphasised Limoges as the...

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Matteo Giovanetti

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martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul, the ordination of Aurelian of Limoges and the creation of thirteen churches in Gaul, the appearance of Christ to proclaim...

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Paris

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dans la chanson française: de Bruant à Renaud (in French). Presses Univ. Limoges. ISBN 978-2-84287-096-6. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016....

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Richard I of England

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of his office; the ceremony took place in Poitiers and was repeated in Limoges, where he wore the ring of St Valerie, who was the personification of Aquitaine...

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Deaths in March 2023

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Souley Abdoulaye, décédé le 1er mars dernier (in French) Ancien joueur du Limoges FC et de l'ESA Brive, Ahmed Arab est décédé (in French) «Вроде некролога»:...

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Simone Boisecq

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Musée de l'Évêché de Limoges [fr], at the Musée Sainte-Croix of Poitiers and at the Musée Unterlinden of Colmar. A monograph of her work, Simone Boiscq:...

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Limousin cattle

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