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Sofronia

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A Christian maiden of Jerusalem, who, to avert a general massacre of the Christians by the Mohammedan king, accused herself of the crime for which they were all to suffer, and whose story with the issue is touchingly related in Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered."

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Sofronia'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/sofronia.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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