Martyr
Dafrosa
Martyr of Rome
Wife of Flavian and mother of Saints Bibiana and Demetria, martyred at Rome under Julian the Apostate.
Life
Holy Martyr Dafrosa was the wife of the martyr Flavian and the mother of Saints Bibiana and Demetria, martyred at Rome in the time of Julian the Apostate.
According to the Martyrology of Usuard, after the killing of her husband Dafrosa was first sent into exile, then the emperor ordered her beheaded. Her commemoration is kept on 4 January in the Western calendar. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured in the West, without synodal canonization.
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