Saint Regina

Also known as

• Regnia
• Reine

Memorial

• 7 September

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Daughter of a pagan named Clement. A convert to Christianity, she was driven from her family’s home because of her faith, and lived as a poor, prayerful shepherdess. Imprisoned, tortured and martyred when she refused an arranged marriage to the Roman proconsul Olybrius.

Died

• throat cut c.286 at Autun, (in modern France)

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation
• venerated at Autun, France from soon after her death

Patronage

• poor people
• shepherdesses
• torture victims

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Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Omer Englebert
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson