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October 12 · Martyr

St. Domnina

St. Domnina

Traditional feast

October 12
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

Not verified yet

Represents

Martyr

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

Keep their day. Remember them on October 12 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, introduced by Gallesinius from the Greek Menology. Authority: — Mention in the Menology.] DOMNINA suffered in.the persecution of Diocletian. She was a native of Anazarbus in Cilicia. The soles of her feet were burnt, and her back was scourged. She died of exhaustion in prison.

Feast days

Feast: October 12

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

Also on October 12
P

St. Pantalus

October 12 · Bishop, Martyr
C

Sts. Cyprian and Felix

October 12 · Martyrs
F

St. Fiech

October 12 · Bishop, Confessor
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Sources & notes

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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.