Iconographic attribute

severed head held in hands

2 saints

Saint Eucharius

Feast: October 22nd • 4th century

A 4th-century bishop and martyr, Eucharius was beheaded near Pompey on the orders of Julian the Apostate after refusing to renounce his fait…

Feast: October 10th • 7th century

A virgin from Champagne in the 7th century, Tanche was beheaded at sixteen by a servant whose advances she had rejected. According to tradit…

Which saints are depicted with severed head held in hands?

Saints depicted with severed head held in hands: Saint Eucharius and Saint Tanche of Saint-Ouen.