Saint
Basilisa
Saint named in the old calendars; the sources preserve few details about her.
Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.
- Feast
- September 3old style September 16
- Era
- unknown
Life
Basilisa was a martyr in Bithynia at the turn of the third and fourth centuries. She was from Nicomedia and lived only about nine years. A victim of the persecution of Diocletian, she was not executed but died of the tortures by which they tried to turn her from Christianity. She is honoured as protector of nursing mothers and is remembered on 3 September (new style).
Commemorated the same day September 3
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