Leontia

Holy Martyr Leontia suffered in North Africa in the year 484, in the persecution of the Arian Vandal king Huneric. She was the daughter of the holy bishop Germanus and belonged to the circle in which Saint Dionysia strengthened the faithful, beside her sister Dativa, the physician Emilian, Boniface of Sibida and Tertius.

The story has come down to us from Victor of Vita, the fifth-⁠century African bishop, in his history of the persecution in the time of the kings Genseric and Huneric. The saint is commemorated on 6 December in the Roman Martyrology and is counted a saint of the undivided Church.