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Martyr Solomonia Mother of the Maccabees

Also known as Solomonia · Salome

The mother of the seven Maccabee brothers, who watched each of her sons die rather than deny God and urged them on to the contest, and at the last gave up her own life, the very pattern of a martyr-mother.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints