Holy Martyrs
Digna and Emerita
Two women martyrs remembered together in Western calendars; few details survive.
Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.
- Feast
- September 22old style October 5
- Era
- unknown
- Order
- Martyrs
Life
Digna and Emerita are women martyrs honoured by the Catholic Church on 22 September. Their relics are believed to be in the church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome, though there is a record that on 5 April 838 a monk named Felix appeared at Fulda with what he claimed were the relics of Saints Cornelius, Callistus, Agapitus, George, Vincent of Zaragoza, Maximus, Cecilia, Eugenia, Digna and Emerita, and Columbana.
The source says nothing about their lives. They are honoured as saints of the undivided Church.
Commemorated the same day September 22
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Felix IV of RomeSaint · Bishop of RomeSep 22
MauriceMartyr · Leader of the Theban LegionSep 22
Maurice and the Theban LegionHoly MartyrsSep 22
Candidus of AgaunumMartyr · Commander of the Theban LegionSep 22
Phocas of SinopeHieromartyr · Bishop of SinopeSep 22
Jonah of YashezeroVenerable · Founder of Yashezero MonasterySep 22
Septimius of IesiHieromartyr · First bishop of IesiSep 22- Kosmas the ZographiteVenerable · Monk of Zographou MonasterySep 22
Paraskeva of DiveevoFool-for-Christ · Fool for ChristSep 22
Sophia of ShamordinoVenerable · First abbess of ShamordinoSep 22
Anthony the New of VeriaVenerable MartyrSep 22.jpg)
Benjamin VoskresenskyHieromartyr · Bishop of RomanovSep 22