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St. Marciana of Caesarea
july 11, martyr
Source: Catholicsaints.info
Source: Catholicsaints.info
Memorial
• 11 July
• 12 July in Toledo, Spain
• 9 January on some early calendars
Profile
Making personal vows, she retired to the city of Caesarea, Mauritania (in modern Algeria) to live is a penitent hermitess. Imprisoned, tortured, threatened with rape, and eventually executed for refusing to worship of statue of the pagan goddess Diana during the persecutions of Diocletian. Martyr.
Born
• Russucur, Mauritania (modern Dellys, Algeria)
Died
• gored by a bull and killed by leopard attack in the amphitheatre at Caesarea, Mauritania (in modern Algeria)
Canonized
• Pre-Congregation