# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-barbara
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:43:54.600Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-barbara"
name: "Saint Barbara"
slug: "saint-barbara"
description: "The patron saint of anyone who works near explosions — artillerymen, miners, demolition crews — because her father was supposedly struck by lightning after he killed her. She's one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, though the Church now doubts she ever existed."
tagline: "Early Christian saint and martyr, from Nicomedia"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heilige_Barbara_van_Nicomedi%C3%AB%2C_Jan_van_Eyck%2C_1437%2C_Koninklijk_Museum_voor_Schone_Kunsten_Antwerpen%2C_410.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "273"
deathDate: "306"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           57.7
  momentum:             0.4302845050552551
  historical:           25.346328
  currentAttention:     2.390469472529195
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
  - name: "Religious Figures"
    slug: "religious-figures"
  - name: "Religious Figure"
    slug: "religious-figure"
  - name: "Religion"
    slug: "religion"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Barbara"
    title: "Wikipedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192816"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Saint%20Barbara"
    title: "Pantheon 2.0"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Сьвятая Барбара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Святая Варвара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_(%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0)"
    title: "Варвара (светица)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Nikomedia"
    title: "Barbara Nikomedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A0rbara_de_Nicom%C3%A8dia"
    title: "Bàrbara de Nicomèdia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://csb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swi%C3%A3t%C3%B4_Barbara"
    title: "Swiãtô Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbora_z_Nikom%C3%A9die"
    title: "Barbora z Nikomédie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_von_Nikomedien"
    title: "Barbara von Nikomedien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%92%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B2%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B1"
    title: "Αγία Βαρβάρα"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankta_Barbara"
    title: "Sankta Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1rbara_de_Nicomedia"
    title: "Bárbara de Nicomedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Nikomediakoa"
    title: "Barbara Nikomediakoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "سنت باربارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_(pyhimys)"
    title: "Barbara (pyhimys)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbe_d'H%C3%A9liopolis"
    title: "Barbe d'Héliopolis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_fan_Nikomeedje"
    title: "Barbara fan Nikomeedje"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A1rbara_de_Nicomedia"
    title: "Bárbara de Nicomedia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%94"
    title: "ברברה הקדושה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sveta_Barbara"
    title: "Sveta Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_Borb%C3%A1la"
    title: "Szent Borbála"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%A2_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%A1"
    title: "Սուրբ Վարվառա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara"
    title: "Barbara"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/B%C3%A0rbara_de_Nicom%C3%A8dia"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Barbara_z_Nikomedii"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sveta_Barbara"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9"
    title: "بربارة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The legends say Barbara was an early Christian in Syria, locked in a tower by her father to keep suitors away. While imprisoned she converted, which enraged him enough to denounce her to authorities. She was tortured and finally beheaded by her own father, who was then struck dead by lightning on his way down the mountain. The story didn't surface in writing until the 7th century, and by the 9th her veneration had spread widely in the East. A 15th-century French account credited her with thirteen miracles, most of them ensuring devotees wouldn't die without confession. In 1969 the Vatican removed her feast from the General Roman Calendar over questions of historicity, though she remains on the list of saints — a martyr whose legend outlived her evidence.