Pierwszy historyk Ko\u015bcio\u0142a, Euzebiusz, przytacza list \u015bw. Dionizego Wielkiego (+ 265), kt\u00f3ry opisuje pogrom chrze\u015bcijan, jaki odby\u0142 si\u0119 w Aleksandrii pod koniec 248 roku lub na pocz\u0105tku 249 r. W jednym z fragment\u00f3w owego listu znajduje si\u0119 opis m\u0119cze\u0144stwa \u015bw. Apolonii: „Apolonia by\u0142a ju\u017c podesz\u0142a wiekiem. A jednak poganie, nie patrz\u0105c na to, rzucili si\u0119 na ni\u0105, zmia\u017cd\u017cyli jej szcz\u0119ki i powybijali wszystkie z\u0119by. Nast\u0119pnie t\u0142um rozszala\u0142y \u017c\u0105dz\u0105 krwi rozpali\u0142 stos przed miastem i zagrozi\u0142 \u015awi\u0119tej, \u017ce j\u0105 \u017cywcem spali, je\u015bli nie b\u0119dzie z\u0142orzeczy\u0107 Chrystusowi. Na to \u015awi\u0119ta poprosi\u0142a o chwil\u0119 do namys\u0142u, a potem gotowa na ofiar\u0119, sama si\u0119 w ogie\u0144 rzuci\u0142a i sp\u0142on\u0119\u0142a”. Mia\u0142o si\u0119 to wydarzy\u0107 pod koniec roku 248 lub na pocz\u0105tku roku 249.
\n\u015aw. Apolonia zdoby\u0142a si\u0119 na ten heroiczny akt z obawy, by poganie nowymi katuszami i powoln\u0105 \u015bmierci\u0105 na stosie nie za\u0142amali jej woli. Nie by\u0142a to wi\u0119c \u015bmier\u0107 samob\u00f3jcza, ale bohaterskie oddanie \u017cycia za najwy\u017csz\u0105 warto\u015b\u0107, jak\u0105 jest wieczne zbawienie. \u017bar jej mi\u0142o\u015bci do Chrystusa by\u0142 tak pot\u0119\u017cny, \u017ce st\u0142umi\u0142 w niej obaw\u0119 przed m\u0119k\u0105 ognia doczesnego. R\u00f3wnocze\u015bnie \u015bw. Apolonia da\u0142a poganom pi\u0119kny przyk\u0142ad, \u017ce nie tylko nie l\u0119ka si\u0119 pogr\u00f3\u017cek, ale sama jest gotowa odda\u0107 \u017cycie dla sprawy Bo\u017cej. Jej heroiczny czyn by\u0142 tak\u017ce zach\u0119t\u0105 dla chrze\u015bcijan, by dla Chrystusa byli gotowi na wszelkie ofiary.
\nIkonografia przedstawia \u015awi\u0119t\u0105 z obc\u0119gami dla przypomnienia, \u017ce zmia\u017cd\u017cono jej usta i wybito z\u0119by. \u015awi\u0119ta uchodzi jeszcze dot\u0105d za patronk\u0119 wzywan\u0105 w chorobach z\u0119b\u00f3w i dzi\u0105se\u0142. Jest patronk\u0105 dentyst\u00f3w i stomatolog\u00f3w.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u015awi\u0119ta Apolonia Pierwszy historyk Ko\u015bcio\u0142a, Euzebiusz, przytacza list \u015bw. Dionizego Wielkiego (+ 265), kt\u00f3ry opisuje pogrom chrze\u015bcijan, jaki odby\u0142 si\u0119 w Aleksandrii pod koniec 248 roku lub na pocz\u0105tku 249 r. W jednym z fragment\u00f3w owego listu znajduje si\u0119 opis m\u0119cze\u0144stwa \u015bw. Apolonii: „Apolonia by\u0142a ju\u017c podesz\u0142a wiekiem. A jednak poganie, nie patrz\u0105c na to, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patroni","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsz.katowice.pl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}