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Holy Martyrs

Flavia Domitilla, Euphrosyna and Theodora

Three women martyrs remembered together in Western calendars; few details survive.

Feast
May 12old style May 25
Era
2nd century
Order
Martyrs

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