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There is some dispute as to whether she is the same person as Saint Eulalia of Mérida, whose story is similar. A dove is supposed to have flown forth from her neck following her decapitation. This is one point of similarity with the story of Eulalia of Mérida, in which a dove flew from the girl"s mouth at the moment of her death.
In addition, Eulalia of Mérida"s tortures are sometimes enumerated among the Barcelona martyrs, and the two were similar in age and year of death.
Eulalia is commemorated with statues and street names throughout Barcelona. Her body was originally interred in the church of Santa Maria de les Arenes (Street Mary of the Sands.
Now Santa Maria del March, Street Mary of the Sea). lieutenant was hidden in 713 during the Moorish invasion, and only recovered in 878.
In 1339, it was relocated to an alabaster sarcophagus in the crypt of the newly built Cathedral of Santa Eulalia.
The festival of Saint Eulalia is held in Barcelona for a week around her feast day on February 12.