St. Romana

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October 3 · Virgin, Martyr

St. Romana

St. Romana

Traditional feast

October 3
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

November 18
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Virgin
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 3 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Gallican Martyrologies. Authority: — a Life, late, and wholly apocryphal.] S. Romana is said to have been one of twelve virgins at Rome who, moved by the preaching of S. Peter, were converted, and set off in company with SS. Dionysius, Fuscianus, Victoricus, Piatus, Ruffinus, Crispin and Crispinian, Valerius, Lucian, Marcellus, Quintin, and Regulus. S. Romana and two others, Benedicta and Leoberta — a Teutonic name, by the way — attached themselves to S. Lucian and S. Quintin. Leoberta was martyred at Laon, and Benedicta at Origny; Romana suffered at Beauvais with S. Lucian. No reliance whatever can be placed on the story. S. Dionysius of Paris belonged to the 4th century, and not to the 1st

Feast days

Feast: November 18
Traditional: October 3

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

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

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St. Bavo

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Sts. Dionysius

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St. Hesychius

October 3 · Feast
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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: St. Raymond Maronite Cathedral (St. Louis, Missouri) - relic of Romanus of Caesarea.jpg · Nheyob · CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

Image: Nheyob, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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.