According to Christian tradition, there would be born in Nicomedia, near the Sea of Marmara, the daughter of a king named Dioscoro satrap, who locked in a tower. According to other versions Dioscoro Barbara and her daughter lived in Heliopolis, Phoenician. There are differences between the versions of his life: the reason may have been locked to prevent men admire her beauty and seduce or to avoid proselytizing Christian. During an absence of his father, Barbara was converted to Catholicism, and constructed three windows in its tower, symbolizing the Holy Trinity. His father learned the meaning of the symbolism of these windows and angry, wanting to kill her. So Barbara fled and took refuge in a rock miraculously open for her. Trapped despite the miracle, is facing his destiny. His martyrdom was the same as that of St. Vincent Martyr: he was tied to a rack, whipped, torn with iron rakes, placed on a bed of ceramic cutting pieces and burned with irons in fire ... Finally, the king sent Dioscoro the judge, who issued the death penalty by beheading. His father who was decapitated at the peak of a mountain, after which it reached a beam, also giving death.
It is the patron of the professions that handle explosives, because of the legend of the lightning, especially those belonging to military artillery weapon in most armies, even in some Muslim countries. In the mining Asturianas dedicate a song called Santa Barbara Bendita, as patron saint of miners.
It is said that the arrival of the Spaniards in this land in the rainy season was heard with a thump, which makes up the canyon between the mountains of Santa Barbara, lightning and thunder very typical even today and the prayer of the Spanish was precisely to Santa Barbara ...
Santa Barbara, virgin maiden protect against lightning, thunder and Centellas
For this reason it is believed that this villa was baptized as Santa Barbola
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