Dina

This name represents the short form “Nuestra Señora de la Almudena (Our Lady of the Almudena),” a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary, from the place name “Almudena.” This name derives from the Arabic “al-mudáyyina,” a diminutive of the word “madīna,” meaning “town, the citadel.” Medina (al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, “the radiant city,” officially transliterated as Madinah by the Saudi Government and in modern Islamic literature generally), is a modern city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, and the capital of Al Madinah Province. Santa María la Real de La Almudena is the Catholic cathedral in Madrid, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid. Pope John Paul II consecrated it in 1993.