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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Saint

Lucilla

A saint venerated at Rome, remembered in the calendars of the Church.

Feast
October 31old style November 13
Era
3rd century
Place
Rome

Life

Holy Martyr Lucilla was a maiden of Rome, put to death for Christ around the year 257, in the persecution of the emperor Valerian.

According to tradition, she was blind from birth. Her father, the tribune Nemesius, asked for and received baptism from Pope Stephen for himself and his daughter, and Lucilla received her sight. The new faith in Christ and the miracle just wrought made her father deaf to the emperor's commands, and both were condemned to death. Lucilla suffered on the Via Appia, near the temple of Mars, and her father received martyrdom between the Via Appia and the Via Latina.

Her commemoration is kept on 31 October in the Western calendar. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured without synodal canonization.

Commemorated the same day October 31