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SAINT ADRIAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 216 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT See also:ADRIAN  , one of the praetorian See also:guards of the See also:emperor See also:Galerius Maximian, who, becoming a convert to See also:Christianity, was martyred at See also:Nicomedia on the 4th of See also:March 303 . It is said that while presiding over the See also:torture of a See also:band of Christians he was so amazed at their courage that he publicly confessed his faith . He was imprisoned, and the next See also:day his limbs were struck off on an See also:anvil, and he was then beheaded, dying in his wife's, St Natalia's, arms . St See also:Adrian's festival, with that of his wife, is kept on the 8th of See also:September . He is specially a See also:patron of soldiers, and is much reverenced in See also:Flanders, See also:Germany and the See also:north of See also:France . He is usually represented armed, with an anvil in his hands or at his feet .

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