Saint Domitilla
![[painting of Saint Domitilla]](saintd31.jpg "12kb jpg detail from 'Saint Gregory, Saint Maurus, Saint Papianus and Saint Domitilla', by Peter Paul Rubens, 1606, oil on canvas, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Flavia Domitilla
- Memorial
- 12 May
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- Roman noble lay woman.
Grand-daughter of Emperor Vespasian; niece of Emperors Titus and Domitian.
Married to Titus Flavius Clemens, a Roman consul, nephew of Emperor Vespasian, and first cousin of Emperors Titus and Domitian.
Convert.
Widowed when her husband was martyred in 96.
Banished to the island of Pandataria in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Possibly martyred, though records are sketchy.
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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New Catholic Dictionary
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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