Felicula
Sign in to saveFelicula was a probably fourth-century Roman martyr whose relics Pope Gregory I gave to Bishop John of Ravenna in about 592. She is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on 13 June: "On the seventh milestone from the city of Rome on the Via Ardeatina, Saint Felicula, martyr".
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Place of death
- Rome
- Image
- Saint Felicula tied to a pole and burnt, and later being Wellcome V0031952.jpg
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- date of birth
- 0400-00-00
- time period
- Roman Empire
- Commons category
- Saint Felicula
- canonization status
- saint
- feast day
- June 13
- subject has role
- martyr
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Felicula was a probably fourth-century Roman martyr whose relics Pope Gregory I gave to Bishop John of Ravenna in about 592. She is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on 13 June: "On the seventh milestone from the city of Rome on the Via Ardeatina, Saint Felicula, martyr".
The heavily romanticized Acts of Saints Nereus and Achilleus make of Felicula one of the first virgin martyrs and assign her death to about 90 AD. In this legend she was the foster sister of Saint Petronilla and was arrested after Petronilla refused to marry a Roman official. After Petronilla's death, Felicula had no food and water in prison. She was thrown into a sewer, where she eventually died. Saint Nicomedes recovered her body.
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