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Venerable Martyr

Digna of Córdoba

A nun of Córdoba in Spain, martyred in 853.

Feast
June 14old style June 27
Reposed
8539th century
Place
Córdoba
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Martyr Digna of Córdoba was a nun at the convent of Tábanos, near Córdoba in Spain, and received the crown of martyrdom on 14 June 853, under the emir Muhammad I. She is commemorated on 14 June.

She was one of the nuns of the convent at Tábanos. She was executed on the same day as the monk Felix of Alcalá, of Berber origin, who had become a monk in Asturias but came to Tábanos seeking martyrdom, and the deacon Anastasius, a deacon of the church of Saint Acisclus in Córdoba who had become a monk at Tábanos. They are counted among the martyrs of Córdoba of that time, killed for proclaiming the Christian faith under Muslim rule. The sources at hand give no more details about Digna.

Commemorated the same day June 14