Babila

Saint Babila was a virgin and martyr. According to a Spanish dictionary of the nineteenth century (1853), she was a granddaughter of the emperor Gallienus; two eunuchs instructed her in the mysteries of Christianity, and she was then baptized by Pope Cornelius. A patrician named Pompey, angered that she would not be his wife, denounced her to the emperor, who gave her the choice between renunciation and death in torments. The virgin did not hesitate in her choice: she offered her head to the executioners and received the martyr's palm. Her feast is kept on 19 July. Being remembered only in such a source, her story belongs rather to legend.