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Name Staurophila
Gender Feminine
Usage Late Greek, Literature
Scripts Σταυροφιλα, Σταυροφιλά, Σταυροφίλα, Σταυρόφιλα(Ancient Greek)
Other Forms FormsStavrofila (modern Greek transcription)
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Meaning & History
Feminine form of Staurophilos. In literature, this is the name of the main character of Regia Via Crucis (1635), an important counter-reformation devotional emblem book written by the Dutch-born Flemish Benedictine monk Benedictus van Haeften (1588-1648). It was his most important work and was translated thirteen times (among others into French, German and Spanish). The book is known as De heyr-baene des cruys in (archaic) Dutch.