Saints Meuris and Thea (perhaps the same as Valentina and Thea; died ) were two Christian women who were martyred at Gaza, Palestine. Their feast day is 19 December.

Monks of Ramsgate account

The

Monks of Ramsgate St Augustine's Abbey or Ramsgate Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Ramsgate. It was built in 1860 by Augustus Pugin and is a Grade II listed building. It was the first Benedictine monastery to be built in England since the Reformation. In ...

wrote in their ''

Book of Saints St Augustine's Abbey or Ramsgate Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey in Ramsgate. It was built in 1860 by Augustus Pugin and is a Grade II listed building. It was the first Benedictine monastery to be built in England since the Reformation. In ...

'' (1921),

Butler's account

The hagiographer

Alban Butler Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiography, hagiographer. Born in Northamptonshire, he studied at the English College, in Douai, Douay, France where he later taught philosophy and theology. He s ...

(1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'' under December 19,

Eusebius and Cureton's notes

Eusebius Eusebius of Caesarea (30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, was a historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima. ...

, Bishop of Caesarea, records how in Gaza at this time a virgin named Valentina and her sister were tortured and then bound together and burned to death.

William Cureton William Cureton (180817 June 1864) was an English Orientalist. Life He was born in Westbury, Shropshire. After being educated at the Adams' Grammar School in Newport, Shropshire and at Christ Church, Oxford, he took orders in 1832, became chapla ...

(1808–1864) in his translation of Eusebius's ''History of the Martyrs in Palestine'' notes that Eusebius gives no name for Valentina's companion, calling her only "the sister". He goes on, Cureton goes on the explain that the compilers of the Menologium may have assumed that these two virgins, which were mentioned by Eusebius just after an account of some Egyptians, were also Egyptians and suffered the same fate.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Meuris and Thea Ancient Christian female saints People of Roman Palestine Saints from Roman Syria 307 deaths