Germana

Saint Germana is, according to tradition, a virgin and martyr, born at Baiona or Braga in 119 or 120 and dead on 19 January 154, according to the "Santoral Español" (1853) of Manuel Arriota y Gómez. Her story belongs to the legend of the nine sisters of Galicia and is legendary.

She was one of the nine daughters born at a single birth to Calsia, wife of the Roman governor of Gallaecia and Lusitania, Lucius Castelius Severus. Calsia, fearing to be thought unfaithful, ordered her servant Sila to drown them; Sila, a Christian, entrusted them to families who brought them up in the faith, and Bishop Ovidius of Braga baptized them. Brought later before their father as Christians, Germana and her sisters (Liberata, Marina, Victoria, Quiteria, Euphemia, Marciana, Genibera and Basilia) refused the abundance promised if they renounced Christ. They escaped from prison and fled to different places, and in the end were all put to death.

Another Saint Germana, a martyr at Carthage, appears in a work of 1725 that cites the Roman Martyrology; she is a different person from the one in this legend.