Candida
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Candida; Candida
identifier: http://syriaca.org/person/3003
identifier: http://www.csc.org.il/db/browse.aspx?db=SB&sL=S&sK=St%20Candida&sT=keywords
Candida was the Christian wife of the Persian emperor Vahran. She was a Roman prison of war whom the other wives of Vahran despised, since she was beautiful and beloved by Vahran. She refuses to recant her Christian identity and is martyred.
floruit: 272
female
state: Martyr
state: Saint
event: Candida is commemorated in Candida (text).
A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity St Candida
A Martyr at the Sasanid Court under Vahran II: Candida Analecta Bollandiana / Société des Bollandistes