Martyr
Cornelia
A martyr commemorated in the calendars of the Western saints.
Life
Holy Martyr Cornelia lived, according to tradition, in North Africa, at Tunis, and suffered around the year 300, in the time of the persecutions, at Carthage or Tunis, together with Anesius, Felix, Theodulus, Portus, Abdas and Valeria. She and her companions are mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.
No other reliable details of her life survive. In Christian iconography she is shown with the martyr's palm. Some of her relics are, according to tradition, at Saint-Malo in Brittany. She is commemorated on 31 March, by the Western calendar (new style), as a saint of the undivided Church.
Commemorated the same day March 31
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Abda of KashkarHieromartyr · Bishop of SusaMar 31
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