Digna and Emerita
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Saints Digna and Emerita | |
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 Detail of the altarpiece of the Chapel of Saints Digna and Emerita in the Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, by Pietro Andrea Barbieri Pucciardi (1727) | |
| Died | 259 AD |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Major shrine | San Marcello al Corso |
| Feast | September 22 |
Saints Digna and Emerita (died 259 AD) are venerated as saints by the Catholic Church. They were Roman maidens seized and put to the torture as Christians in the persecution of Valerian (A.D. 254-A.D. 259) at Rome.[1]
Their feast day is celebrated on September 22.
Their relics are said to lie at the church of San Marcello al Corso, in Rome, although it is recorded that on April 5, 838, a monk named Felix appeared at Fulda with the remains of Saints Cornelius, Callistus, Agapitus, Georgius, Vincentius, Maximus, Cecilia, Eugenia, Digna, Emerita, and Columbana.[2]
Notes[]
- ^ Monks of Ramsgate. "Digna and Emerita". Book of Saints 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 28 October 2012
- ^ Patrick J. Geary, Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), 48.
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Categories:
- 259 deaths
- 3rd-century Christian martyrs
- Groups of Christian martyrs of the Roman era