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Holy Martyrs

Argentea and Vulfura

Two martyrs of Córdoba in Spain, put to death in 931.

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Feast
May 13old style May 26
Reposed
93110th century
Place
Córdoba
Order
Martyrs

Life

Argentea and Vulfura were two martyrs of Córdoba, put to death on 13 May 931 by the Umayyads, that is, in the time of the Muslim emirate of Córdoba. The Roman Catholic Church remembers them on 13 May as saints and martyrs.

Argentea was a woman born at Bobastro of a Muslim family who had gone over to Christianity. Vulfura was a Frankish monk, born in Gaul at the end of the 9th century, a Christian preacher. Both were put to death because they would not renounce their faith. Their story has come down, according to some sources, rather through tradition.

They are honored as holy martyrs by several Christian confessions. They belong to the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known, and the sources give no details of their martyrdom.

Commemorated the same day May 13