Eutralia

Saint Eutralia was a maiden of the nobility of Lentini in Sicily, killed by her brother for her Christian faith, according to tradition in the year 257.

She was the daughter of the widow Eutropia and the sister of Servilianus, a pagan priest in the temple of the goddess Ceres. Her mother suffered from an illness with loss of blood and went to the tomb of the martyrs Alphius, Cyrinus and Philadelphus; there, according to the hagiographical account, the three saints appeared to her in a vision and promised healing if she received baptism. Eutropia and Eutralia were baptized, and Eutropia was healed. Eutralia, who had been betrothed, resolved to remain a virgin and give herself to God.

Servilianus received the change in the two women with anger and tried to strangle his mother. Eutralia intervened and rebuked him; he attacked her, tore her clothes and handed her to a slave. As she prayed to the saints, the slave was struck blind and fell down. Servilianus then killed her with a dagger to the throat on 8 September 257. Her body was laid in the crypt of the cathedral of Lentini.

She is venerated as a saint at Lentini and in Western calendars, and is commemorated on 27 August, also in some Orthodox synaxaria; she no longer appears in the Roman Martyrology, and her veneration stands without synodal canonization. As a person of the early centuries she is counted a saint of the undivided Church.