Clementina

Saint Clementina is a name borne by several saints venerated chiefly in the West, and the sources at hand do not make clear which of them is the one we speak of here. Her commemoration appears on 9 April.

According to some sources, a Clementina was a disciple of Saint Peter and lived in Rome in the first century. According to others, a Saint Clementina lived in the third and fourth centuries, as a martyr and virgin. Her body was found in April 1751 in Rome, in the catacombs of Saint Cyriaca, attached to the church of Saint Lawrence. Her relics are today at Albi.

Another Clementina is counted among the eleven thousand virgins who accompanied Saint Ursula. The relics of this Clementina were in the Augustinian convent of Gross-⁠Nazareth in Cologne. The relics of a Clementina are also found at Brno, Castelguidone and Fermo.

Clementina is regarded as the patroness of the town of Castelguidone and of girls betrayed by their lovers. It is not known with certainty whose life is being told, so what is said of her remains uncertain.