Chemin des Sculptures
Monaco-Ville

Sainte Dévote

  • Artist : MAULET
  • Creation date : 1989
  • Materials : Mosaic
  • Collection : Comité National des Traditions Monégasques
Saint Devota is the patron saint of the Principality and of the Princely Family. Her feast day is celebrated on 27 January. Devota was a young Christian girl, martyred in the reign of Diocletian in 304 AD, by the consul Barbarus, then governor of Corsica. Her body was placed on a boat which, guided ...