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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by TheAwesomeHwyh (talk19:15, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that the life of Apollinaris Syncletica, a 5th century saint, "turns on the familiar theme of a girl putting on male attire and living for many years undiscovered"? Source: Alban Butler, Butler's Lives of the Saints, p. 34
    • ALT1: ... that Saint Apollinaris Syncletica (5th century) might have been wrongly accused of seducing her own sister? Source: Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, p. 71

Created by Figureskatingfan (talk). Self-nominated at 15:04, 11 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Meaning of "Syncletica"

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Perhaps it would have been both wise and kind to tell the interested reader the meaning of the epithet "Syncletica". Elsewhere in the net I have learned that it signifies "member of a senatorial family"... Terminallyuncool and Terminallyuncool2, hampered yet again by lost passwords.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8070:249B:4F00:804F:5388:82E4:5DEB (talk) 08:08, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]