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  ICON
Saint Diminia
(and her Virgin Companions)
 

Tradition tells that St. Mimiana converted her father, a government official in Lower Egypt and was subsequently martyred during the Diocletian persecution, along with her father and virgin companions.
 

LOCATION
Al Mu'allaquah
Old Cairo
 

Source:  Coptic Icons, vol. I
(Cairo, Egypt:  Lehnert & Landrock, 1998): 100.