Saint Charity

Memorial

• 1 August (Western calendar)
• 17 September (Eastern calendar)

Profile

One of the daughters of Saint Sophia. Tortured and martyred for her faith at the age of nine in the persecutions of Hadrian.

Died

• scourged, thrown into a fire, and then beheaded

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Online
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
• Roman Martyrology, 3rd Turin edition