Felicissima

Holy Martyr Felicissima is recorded in the Roman Martyrology as a martyr at Falerii in Etruria, on 12 August, around the beginning of the fourth century.

According to the account, in the persecution of Diocletian the youth Gratilian, a nobleman's son of sixteen, was baptized in secret and confessed the faith before the governor Thrasonius. While he was imprisoned, many came to him and became Christians. Among them was Felicissima, a blind young woman who regained her sight as soon as Gratilian baptized her. The governor, seeing sorcery in this miracle, tried both, had their teeth crushed with a stone and led them to death. On the bank of a stream between old Falerii and Falerii Novi they knelt and were beheaded, their heads falling into the water. The exact year is uncertain: 313 is often given, and the Roman Martyrology links her with Todi, while the account places the martyrdom between Falerii and Falerii Novi.

She is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West on 12 August in the new style of the Western calendar, without synodal canonization.