Saint Alodia
![[Saint Alodia holy card]](saintn23.jpg "41kb jpg detail from an antique holy card of Saints Alodia and Nunilo, artist unknown; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Memorial
- 22 October
- Profile
- Sister of Saint Nunilo.
Muslim father and a Christian mother, she was raised Christian.
When her father died, her mother married another Muslim man who persecuted the girls, imprisoned them, and turned them over to die during the persecution of Abdur Rahman II.
Martyr.
- Born
- Huesca, Spain
- Died
- beheaded at Huesca in 851
- Name Meaning
- great force; great power; great courage; free land
- Patronage
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child abuse victims,
martyrs,
people ridiculed for their piety,
runaways,
unmarried lay-women
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