Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Mentioned in the Sacramentary of Pope Gelasius. S. Pudens her father also in the Roman Martyrology, and in that of Usuardus, Ado, Bellinus and Maurolycus. S. Praxedis, the sister of S. Pudentiana, is commemorated on July 21st. Authority: — The Acts, which purport to be written by S. Pastor (July 27th), a contemporary. But their authenticity is very questionable.] AINT PUDENS was a Roman senator, who had the honour of receiving S. Peter into his house, when the prince of the Apostles came to Rome. He was probably converted by S. Paul, for that Apostle mentions him as his disciple in his second Epistle to S. Timothy. He died in the innocence of his baptismal condition, and left behind him two daughters, Praxedis and Pudentiana. These saintly virgins gave great alms to the poor, and their palace was used for the celebration of the Divine Mysteries. S. Pudentiana is said to have died a martyr’s death in the year 160,1 but this is hardly possible, and it is more probable that there were two saints of the same name, and that a similar confusion has been made in her case to that which exists 1 The Acts by S. Pastor say nothing about her dying by martyrdom, but simply state that she died at the age of sixteen. Consequently the Pudentiana who died in 160 must have been another.

PUDENTIANA AND S. PRAXEDIS RENDERING THEIR LAST SERVICES TO THE MARTYRED SAINTS. Prom the Church of St a. Pudentienna at Rome. B. Alcuin.

in the case of S. Prisca. She was buried in the catacomb of S. Priscilla, the wife of Punicus, and mother of S. Pudens. The relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] of S. Pudentiana have been conveyed to France, and repose in the church of Chatillon-sur-long, in the diocese of Orleans.