Candida

Candida was a woman martyr of Rome, one of a group who suffered on the Ostian Way outside the gates of the city. Her relics were enshrined in the church of Santa Prassede. She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

Her commemoration falls on 29 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 11 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of her life.