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aSt. Barbara, as told in different versions, was one of the earliest Christians whose father was a Roman Governor at Nicomedia in Western Asia Minor. The told is that she was imprisoned in a tower with two windows, to prevent her marriage or - in another version, because she was a Christian - She had workers add an extra window to the tower, making a total of three, a reference to the Trinity. Upon her father's curious question about the windows, she answered, " Know, my father, that through these windows my soul receive the light - the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, and three are one. Her father furious at her answer beheaded her own daughter right there and was himself was struck by a lightning and his body turned ashes. So, she became the patron saint of Gunners, Miners, with a reference from her father's fate. A Tower is emblem for St. Barbara. |
