Aurelia

Saint Aurelia of Alexandria (about 243-260) was a young woman of the Egyptian city of Alexandria. With her mother, Martana, she moved to Rome after her cousins Adria and Paulina, with their children Neon and Maria, had died as martyrs. A few months after her marriage there, when she had made her husband receive baptism, she was put to death because she refused to offer incense to the gods. The day before she saw her mother and aunt beheaded for the same reason, and she was killed in the same place. She is venerated from ancient times as a holy martyr; her feast is on the day of her death, 2 December.