Saint Emerentiana
Also known as
- Emerentia
- 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
- stoned to death c.304 at Rome, Italy
- buried in the cemetery at Via Nomentana
- relics later translated to the Basilica of Saint Agnes
- 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
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Google Directory
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
