Lupercilla

Saint Lupercilla was a virgin of Rome, counted among the martyrs of the catacombs, born in 225 or 226 and died in 233. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Her commemoration is on 14 July; at Crodo, on the second Sunday of July.

Lupercilla belongs to the martyrs of the catacombs, about whom little is known. She is thought to have belonged to the Christian family of the consul Pammachius, made up of forty-⁠two persons, who received a martyr's death in 233, in the reign of the emperor Alexander Severus. Analysis of the relics showed that Lupercilla was a little girl of about seven or eight. Of such bodies, called holy bodies or martyrs of the catacombs, often nothing is known except the name, and a supposed or imaginary life is reconstructed.

The relics of the saint were found in the catacombs of Saint Callistus on the Via Appia in 1819, after which they were moved to the church of Saint Stephen in Crodo.