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A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

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October 4 · Martyrs

Sts. Domnina

Sts. Domnina, Berenice and Prosdoce

A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

October 4
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyrs

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. A whole community that stayed faithful to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on October 4 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Menology. Authorities: — Mention by Eusebius, lib. viii. c. 12; an oration by S. John Chrysostom; S. Ambrose, Horn, xxii.] Domnina and her two daughters, virgins, Berenice or Verinna and Prosdoce, in the persecution of Diocletian fled from home, but were pursued; and being taken by soldiers, to escape from their brutality flung themselves into a river and were drowned.

Feast days

Feast: October 4

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
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One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from Sts. Domnina's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

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Credits

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.