Saint Alodia of Huesca

Memorial

• 22 October

Profile

Sister of Saint Nunilo of Huesca, she was born to a Muslim father and Christian mother, and was raised Christian. When her father died, her mother married another Muslim man who persecuted the girls, imprisoned them, and turned them over to die during the persecution of Abdur Rahman II. Martyr.

Born

• Huesca, Spain

Died

• beheaded at Huesca, Spain in 851

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• child abuse victims
• martyrs
• people ridiculed for their piety
• runaways
• unmarried lay-women

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Alodia of Huesca”. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 August 2012. Web. 22 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-alodia-of-huesca/>