Barbara, Alexandra

Barbara was beautiful and intelligent. Her wealthy father kept her like a treasure in a tower, in Heliopolis, Egypt. One time, when her father was out of town, she ventured out of the tower and met some Christians. She immediately embraced the Christian faith. When her father found out about her faith, he turned her over to the governor of the city to be tortured. Barbara took her stand for Christ and was tortured and killed by her own father. The same day, lightning struck her father's house, killing both him and the governor. She suffered in 306.

Alexandra Fyodorovna assumed this name upon blessing into the Russian Orthodox Church which (Императрица Александра Фёдоровна) canonised her as Saint Alexandra in 2000.

Alexandra was the wife of the wicked Emperor Diocletian and was a Christian, but secretly. While Diocletian was having Saint George tortured, the Empress went to the arena and bowed before St. George and professed her faith openly. Her husband was so outraged by this and by so many people being converted by witnessing George's miracles and patient endurance, that he ordered both of them beheaded. Alexandra quietly accepted her sentence and prayed as the guards walked her to the place of execution where she quietly gave her soul to God. She reposed in 303. Two days later, St. George was beheaded. They are commemorated at the same time along with Anatolios, Protoleon and the 630 others who were martyred for professing faith while witnessing George's martyrdom.