Benildis of Córdoba

Saint Benildis of Córdoba was a woman of Córdoba in Spain who accepted death for Christ in the year 853, in the Muslim persecution of Christians, and is counted among the forty-⁠eight Martyrs of Córdoba. She was of an advanced age.

According to one source, moved by the courage of the priest Athanasius during his martyrdom, she braved death at the stake the next day; according to another, she was beheaded and her body burned and the ashes scattered. Her ashes were thrown into the Guadalquivir. She is commemorated on 15 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.