Concordia

Holy Martyr Concordia was the nurse of the holy Martyr Hippolytus of Rome and suffered with him in the year 258, in the time of the Emperor Valerian. She is commemorated on 13 August by the old calendar.

When Hippolytus, the chief of the prison guards of Rome, confessed himself a Christian, his property was taken and Concordia was beaten to death with rods before his eyes; then all the members of his household were beheaded. Her body was thrown into an unclean place in Rome. After a time two Christians, Irenaeus and Abundius, learned from a soldier where it had been thrown and buried it beside Saint Hippolytus. For this they were drowned on 26 August, in the same way as the martyr had been. Christians took the martyrs' bodies by night and laid them beside the relics of the archdeacon Lawrence.