Trying to combine dental practitioners, Foshar decided to create a single emblem for the guild. To do this, he used the image of Apollonia (young girl with tongs in hand), and International Day of the dentist He announced the death of the Great Day.
In the third century AD, a Christian of Apollo, who lived in Alexandria, pagans by all means tried to force to abandon their faith. The followers of Jesus Christ in those days had hard times - they have been subjected to severe persecution. Not passed opals and daughter of a wealthy merchant of the capital.
To break the unruly Apollo, pagans cruelly taunted an elderly woman. One of the torture, which was subjected to furious Christian woman, was pulling teeth large forceps. But Apollonius broke down and the flour. As a result, the woman decided to burn at the stake. The sentence was executed on February 9 249 years.
Apollonia last request was to unleash it before his death. But instead of being the last time to look around, a merchant's daughter threw herself into the fire, praying to God to take her soul.
By the way:
A belief that if a man who has toothache, utters «Santa Apollonia! "That he would get rid of torture, is still alive. But if you do not want to resort to this very precarious protection, Medikforum Recommends that its oral more careful attention and brushing teeth in the rules.
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