Apollonia on February 9, and she is popularly invoked against the toothache because of the torments she had to endure. The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches celebrate the feast day of St. Sant'Apollonia was a former Benedictine convent, founded in 1339, just north of the center of Florence, in Italy. The best known component is the former refectory or dining hall of the convent, the Cenacolo of Sant'Apollonia now part of the Museums of the Commune of Florence, with entrance through a nondescript door near the corner of Via Ventisette Aprile and Reparata. According to church tradition, her torture included having all of her teeth violently pulled out or shattered.
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