Saint Blandina the Slave

Also known as

• Blandina of Lyon

Memorial

• 2 June

Profile

Slave. With several others, she was set upon by a pagan mob, arrested, tried and convicted of the crime of Christianity, along with a number of nonsense charges like cannibalism, during the persecutions of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. One of the Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne.

Died

• enmeshed in a net and given to a wild bull in 177 at Lyon (in modern France)
• body burned and the ashes thrown in the river
• what could be recovered is in the church of Saint-Leu, Amiens, France

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• falsely accused people
• girls
• Lyon, France
• torture victims

Representation

• bull

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Blandina the Slave”. Saints.SQPN.com. 3 September 2012. Web. 23 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-blandina-the-slave/>