Saint Valeria of Milan

Also known as

• Valerie of Milan

Memorial

• 28 April

Profile

Wife of Saint Vitalis of Milan. Mother of Saint Gervase and Saint Protase. Martyred for given decent burial for Christian martyrs, and then refusing to sacrifice to pagan gods. Some modern writers contend that she may have been a character in a work of fiction mistaken for history.

Died

• beaten to death with clubs in the 1st or 2nd century in Milan, Italy
• relics in the British Museum and in Thibodeaux, Louisiana

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• Thibodeaux, Louisiana

Representation

• with Saint Vitalis, Saint Gervase and Saint Protase
• early female martyr being beaten with clubs

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Catholic Online
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Roman Martyrology
• Saint Joseph’s Parish, Thibodeaux, Louisiana, USA

MLA Citation

• “Saint Valeria of Milan“. Saints.SQPN.com. 27 April 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>