Saint Emerentiana

Also known as

• Emerentia

Memorial

• 23 January
• 16 September (Martyrologium Hieronymianum)
• confined to local calendars since 1969

Profile

Foster-sister of Saint Agnes of Rome. Catechumen. While on her way to pray at Saint Agnes‘s grave a few days after her sister‘s martyrdom, she was confronted by an angry mob of pagans. Emerentiana professed her Christianity and her relationship to Agnes. Martyr.

Born

• Roman

Died

• stoned to death c.304 at Rome, Italy
• buried in the cemetery at Via Nomentana
• relics later translated to the Basilica of Saint Agnes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against abdominal pains
• against colic
• against stomach ache

Representation

• girl with stones in her lap and holding a palm of martyrdom or lily of a holy death
• girl being stoned by a mob near the tomb of Saint Agnes of Rome

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Encyclopedia
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Emerentiana“. Saints.SQPN.com. 22 January 2013. Web. 26 May 2013. <>