Martyr
Celeriana of Vic
A holy woman linked with Vic in Catalonia, who died around the year 718; few details survive.
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- Reposed
- 7188th century
- Place
- Vic
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Celeriana of Vic is a legendary figure. She was, it is said, a young woman of Vic in Catalonia who died a martyr in 718, when the Muslims reached the town.
She first appears in the Cronicón de Haubert, a forgery written by Antonio de Lupián Zapata in 1667 and passed off as an ancient chronicle of the ninth century. Since then her name has entered histories and calendars of saints uncritically, though it appears in no other earlier source, nor in any credible historical source. In later calendars she is called "Celeriana, virgin and martyr, daughter of Vic", with no other mention. She is not in the Roman Martyrology or any official calendar of saints. She was venerated at Vic and in some parishes of the Segarra.