Venerable Limnaeus

350 · Early Church

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Biography

Limnaeus, Limnaios, Limnaea, Limnaee, Limnetes, or Limnagenes, meaning in Greek "inhabiting or born in a lake or marsh". It is an ancient Greek surname of several divinities who were believed either to have sprung from a lake or had their temples near a lake. Instances are, Dionysus at Athens, and Artemis at Sicyon, near Epidaurus, on the frontiers between Laconia and Messenia, near Calamae, Patrae; it is also used as a surname of nymphs that dwell in lakes or marshes. Limnaee was the Naiad-nymph of a lake in India and daughter of the river Ganges. She had a son named Athis. Limnaeus or Limnaios is also used as a name:

Patronages

No patronages on file. (See the documentation/patronage-data-plan.md for the gap-fill plan.)

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