Saint Barbara - 8 inch Prayer Candle
Color : Red Wax Dimensions: 8" height x 2.5" width Patron Saint of architects, artillerymen, firemen, mathematicians, miners, tunnellers, chemical engineers, prisoners What is the depiction of the Saint Barbara candle? Saint Barbara wears a crown made of bricks, a reminder of the tower where she was imprisoned by her father. Pagan teachers were the only people her father allowed to visit her. Despite her isolation, Saint Barbara was eager to know about the Creator of the world she saw from her three-tower windows, and so she eagerly learned all she could about the Maker of Heaven and Earth. She bravely professed her faith in our Savior with unwavering conviction even though one else around her believed, and though she certainly knew her faith would cost her life. Saint Barbara holds the sword of her martyrdom in her left hand, as her father ordered her humiliated, tortured, and executed for her faith. Barbara had no earthly Christian companions throughout her life, but she was joined i