Apolonia wa Aleksandria

Apolonia wa Aleksandria (alifariki 249 hivi) alikuwa mmojawapo katika kundi la mabikira wa Aleksandria, Misri, waliofia imani yao wakati wa shambulio dhidi ya Wakristo lililotangulia dhuluma ya kaisari Decius.Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiae, I:vi: 41. After describing how a Christian man and woman, Metras and Quinta, were seized and killed by the mob, and how the houses of several other Christians were pillaged, Dionysius continues: "At that time Apollonia, parthénos presbytis (mostly likely meaning a deaconess) was held in high esteem. These men seized her also and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of soldiers and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words (either a blasphemy against Christ, or an invocation of the heathen gods). Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death". Olmert, Michael (1996). Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser & Curiouser Adventures in History, p.66. Simon & Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-684-80164-7.

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Marejeo ya Kiswahili
 John Kabeya na wengine - Maisha ya Watakatifu – ed. T.M.P. Book Department – Tabora 1965, 1989, uk. 49-50
 Pd. Leandry Kimario, O.F.M.Cap. - Mfahamu Mtakatifu Somo Wako - Maisha ya Watakatifu wa Kila Siku pamoja na Watakatifu Wafransisko - Toleo la pili - Dar es Salaam 2021, uk. 42

 Marejeo ya lugha nyingine
Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-14-051312-4.
Beal, John F.  Representations of St Apollonia in British Churches. Dental Historian vol 30, pp 3–19, (1996).

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