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Martyr Potamiaena of Alexandria

Also known as Potamiani · Potamiana

A Christian slave-woman of Alexandria who, guarding her purity and her faith, was tormented and killed with boiling pitch under Maximian; the soldier Basilides who pitied her was soon converted and martyred himself.

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