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St. Barbara was born to the toparch Dioscoros, an ungodly man, during the reign of the Emperor Maximian. Her parents, seeing her beauty, desired to keep her hidden from men and would only allow certain sets of suitors to come. She was stored away in a tower and would turn down each and every one, desiring ultimately to preserve her virginity. Dioscoros, thinking this was out of naïve peevishiness on his daughter's part, had a bathing house built alongside the tower. The tower was filled with…

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