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She was never canonized. Barbara of Nicomedia is no longer listed on the Calendar of Saints as of 1969 and her cult has been suppressed. There were undoubtedly beautiful converts named Barbara, this saint is legend, and her cultus developed when pious fiction was mistaken for history.

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