Holy Martyrs
Flavia Domitilla, Euphrosyna and Theodora
Three women martyrs remembered together in Western calendars; few details survive.
Life
Flavia Domitilla, Euphrosyna and Theodora are three women martyrs of the second century, commemorated together on 12 May (the date in the calendars of Western saints, new style). Flavia Domitilla was a great-niece of the emperors Domitian and Titus and of Saint Flavius Clemens; she is said to have become a Christian. Because she refused to marry a pagan, she was exiled from Rome and then put to death for her faith at Terracina in Italy, together with her foster sisters Euphrosyna and Theodora. The soldiers Nereus and Achilleus were exiled with her. The source consulted gives no other details.
Commemorated the same day May 12
Epiphanius of SalamisSaint · Archbishop of Salamis in CyprusMay 12
Pancras of RomeMartyr · of RomeMay 12
Germanus of ConstantinopleSaint · Patriarch of ConstantinopleMay 12
Rictrude of MarchiennesVenerable · Abbess of Marchiennes AbbeyMay 12
CrispoldusSaint · Bishop of BettonaMay 12
Simeon of VerkhoturyeRighteous · Patron of the UralsMay 12
Dionysius of RadonezhVenerable · Archimandrite of the Trinity LavraMay 12
Anthony MedvedevVenerable · Superior of the Lavra of Saint SergiusMay 12- John the VlachNew MartyrMay 12
Philip of AgiraHieromartyr · Priest of SicilyMay 12- Theodore the AsceticVenerable · AsceticMay 12
AchilleusSaintMay 12