Saint Augusta of Treviso

Also known as

• Augusta of Ceneda
• Augusta di Serravalle
• Augusta of Tarvisium
• Augusta the Martyr

Memorial

• 27 March

Profile

Fith century daughter of the Teutonic duke of Friuli. Convert to Christianity. Killed by her father with his own hands for her faith.

Died

• beheaded by her father in the 5th century
• buried at Treviso, northern Italy

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation
• venerated for centuries in Serravalle, Italy

Patronage

• Ceneda, Italy
• Serravalle, Italy

Representation

• sword
• funeral pyre
• wheel
• holding a sword on a funeral pyre, sometimes with her father nearby
• being killed by her father
• woman in royal robes with a palm of martyrdom

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Heiligen 3s
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Santi e Beati
• Wikipedia
• Wikipedia - italiano

MLA Citation

• “Saint Augusta of Treviso“. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 April 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>