Digna of Todi

Saint Digna of Todi (Degna) was a virgin ascetic near Todi in Umbria, Italy, during the persecution of Diocletian, around 303. She lived as an anchoress in the nearby mountains, in complete solitude and unceasing prayer, preaching the faith in Christ.

Little is known of her life, and some of it is unclear; some have even supposed that the saint never existed and that the name "Digna" was merely an attribute of some virgin distinguished by that quality. She died in 303 in a secluded place where the abbey of San Faustino was later raised, and her burial place was long a pilgrimage goal. At Todi her relics rest in the temple of San Fortunato, and many remains of churches in her honor are found in the region; vestiges of this kind, perhaps medieval, also exist at Aggius in Gallura, Sardinia. She is commemorated on 11 August as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.